Jeremiah 23:29
27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
31 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that smashes a rock?”
- KJV
- Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
- WEB
- “Isn’t my word like fire?” says the LORD; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
- ASV
- Is not my word like fire? saith Jehovah; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
- DARBY
- Is not my word like a fire, saith Jehovah; and like a hammer [that] breaketh the rock in pieces?
- BLB
- “Is it not thus, My word [is] like the fire,” a declaration of YHWH, “And like a hammer that dashes a rock?”
- ÅB
- Er ikke mitt ord som en ild, sier Herren, og lik en hammer som knuser berg?
- OTB
- "Er ikke mitt ord som ild," sier Herren, "og som en hammer som knuser en stein?
- B1930
- Er ikke mitt ord som en ild, sier Herren, og lik en hammer som knuser berg?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Read in contextJeremiah 5:14
Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
Read in contextLuke 24:32
And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Read in contextJeremiah 20:9
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Read in context2 Corinthians 10:4–5
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
Read in contextRevelation 11:5
And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
Read in contextJohn 6:63
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Read in contextActs 2:3
And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
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