Jeremiah 23:29

KJV1611 – Modern English

Is not my word like a fire? says the LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

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  • Jer 5:14 : 14 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak anymore in his name. But his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with holding back, and I could not stay.
  • 2 Cor 10:4-5 : 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God for the pulling down of strongholds; 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
  • Heb 4:12 : 12 For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged 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.
  • Rev 11:5 : 5 And if anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies; and if anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this manner.
  • Luke 24:32 : 32 And they said to one another, Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with us on the road, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?
  • John 6:63 : 63 It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life.
  • Acts 2:3 : 3 And there appeared to them divided tongues as of fire, and one sat upon each of them.
  • Acts 2:37 : 37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, 'Men and brethren, what shall we do?'
  • 2 Cor 2:16 : 16 To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is adequate for these things?

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    30Therefore behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, who steal my words everyone from his neighbor.

    31Behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, who use their tongues and say, 'He says.'

  • Jer 23:28
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    28The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? says the LORD.

  • Jer 5:13-14
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    76%

    13And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

    14Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

  • Isa 30:13-14
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    73%

    13Therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.

    14And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter's vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found among its fragments a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water from the pit.

  • Ezek 22:22-23
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    72%

    22As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be melted in its midst; and you shall know that I the LORD have poured out My fury upon you.

    23And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Jer 23:9
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    9My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.

  • Jer 50:23
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    23How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! how Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

  • Ps 29:7
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    7The voice of the LORD divides the flames of fire.

  • Hos 6:5
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    5Therefore I have cut them down by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and your judgments are as the light that goes forth.

  • Ps 83:14
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    14As the fire burns a forest, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;

  • Isa 55:11
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    11so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

  • Jer 51:20
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    20You are my battle axe and weapons of war; for with you I will break in pieces the nations, and with you I will destroy kingdoms;

  • Jer 20:8-9
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    8For since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach to me, and a derision, daily.

    9Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak anymore in his name. But his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with holding back, and I could not stay.

  • Jer 51:23
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    23I will also break in pieces with you the shepherd and his flock; and with you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen; and with you I will break in pieces captains and rulers.

  • Isa 5:24
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    24Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • Jer 23:1
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    1Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the LORD.

  • Ezek 24:15
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    15Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Jer 51:25
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    25Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the LORD, which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out My hand upon you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.

  • Jer 15:12
    69%

    12Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

  • Isa 30:30
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    30And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the coming down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, tempest, and hailstones.

  • Mic 1:4
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    4And the mountains will be molten under him, and the valleys will be split, as wax before the fire, and as waters that are poured down a steep place.

  • Jer 25:8
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    8Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts; Because you have not heard My words,

  • Jer 29:19
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    19Because they have not heeded my words, says the LORD, which I sent to them by my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but you would not hear, says the LORD.

  • Jer 9:7
    69%

    7Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and test them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

  • Jer 9:9
    69%

    9Shall I not visit them for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

  • Mic 3:5
    69%

    5Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who make my people err, who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that puts not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

  • Jer 18:7
    69%

    7At any moment I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

  • Zech 5:4
    69%

    4I will bring it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with its timber and its stones.

  • Ezek 12:28
    68%

    28Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; None of my words shall be postponed any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, says the Lord GOD.

  • Isa 28:2
    68%

    2Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, who shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

  • Isa 33:12
    68%

    12The people will be burned to lime; like thorns cut up, they will be burned in the fire.

  • Isa 22:25
    68%

    25In that day, says the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in a sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD has spoken it.

  • Job 31:12
    68%

    12For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

  • Nah 1:6
    68%

    6Who can stand before his indignation? And who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

  • Jer 45:4
    68%

    4Thus you shall say to him, The LORD says this; Behold, that which I have built I will break down, and that which I have planted I will uproot, even this whole land.

  • Jer 17:15
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    15Behold, they say to me, Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now.

  • Amos 6:11
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    11For behold, the LORD commands, and He will strike the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

  • Lam 1:13
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    13From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Jer 1:9
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    9Then the LORD put forth His hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said to me, Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.

  • Jer 22:7
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    7And I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons: and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

  • Jer 22:29
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    29O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

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    15For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

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    28And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the middle of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

  • Ezek 15:4
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    4Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire consumes both ends of it, and the middle of it is burned. Is it fit for any work?

  • Isa 41:15
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    15Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff.