Jeremiah 23:29 ““Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that…”

Jeremiah 23:29

“Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that smashes a rock?”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

World English Bible

“Isn’t my word like fire?” says the LORD; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

American Standard Version

Is not my word like fire? saith Jehovah; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

Geneva Bible 1599

Is not my word euen like a fire, sayeth the Lord? and like an hammer, that breaketh the stone?

Darby Translation

Is not my word like a fire, saith Jehovah; and like a hammer [that] breaketh the rock in pieces?

Young's Literal Translation

Is it not thus? My word [is] as a fire, An affirmation of Jehovah. And as a hammer — it breaketh in pieces a rock.

Bible in Basic English

Is not my word like fire? says the Lord; and like a hammer, smashing the rock to bits?

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Cross references

“like as”

Hebrews 4:12 Jeremiah 5:14 Luke 24:32 Jeremiah 20:9 John 6:63 Revelation 11:5

Hebrews 4:12 · BSB

For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Jeremiah 5:14 · BSB

Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.

Luke 24:32 · BSB

They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

Jeremiah 20:9 · BSB

If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

John 6:63 · BSB

The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.

Revelation 11:5 · BSB

If anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouths and devours their enemies. In this way, anyone who wants to harm them must be killed.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

28Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?” declares the LORD.

30“Therefore behold,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words they attribute to Me.”

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