Jeremiah 23:29

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Jer 5:14 : 14 Wherefore thus saith Jehovah, the 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.
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot [contain] .
  • 2 Cor 10:4-5 : 4 (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds), 5 casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
  • Heb 4:12 : 12 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.
  • Rev 11:5 : 5 And if any man desireth to hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth their enemies; and if any man shall desire to hurt them, in this manner must he be killed.
  • Luke 24:32 : 32 And they said one to another, Was not our heart burning within us, while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures?
  • John 6:63 : 63 It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.
  • Acts 2:3 : 3 And there appeared unto them tongues parting asunder, like as of fire; and it sat upon each one of them.
  • Acts 2:37 : 37 Now when they heard [this], they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles, Brethren, what shall we do?
  • 2 Cor 2:16 : 16 to the one a savor from death unto death; to the other a savor from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

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    30Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that steal my words every one from his neighbor.

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  • Jer 23:28
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    28The 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 straw to the wheat? saith Jehovah.

  • Jer 5:13-14
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    13and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

    14Wherefore thus saith Jehovah, the 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.

  • Isa 30:13-14
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    13therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant.

    14And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd wherewith to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.

  • Ezek 22:22-23
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    22As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I, Jehovah, have poured out my wrath upon you.

    23And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

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    9Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of Jehovah, and because of his holy words.

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

  • Ps 29:7
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    7The voice of Jehovah cleaveth the flames of fire.

  • Hos 6:5
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    5Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are [as] the light that goeth forth.

  • Ps 83:14
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    14As the fire that burneth the forest, And as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire,

  • Isa 55:11
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    11so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

  • Jer 51:20
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    20Thou art my battle-axe and weapons of war: and with thee will I break in pieces the nations; and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

  • Jer 20:8-9
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    8For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Jehovah is made a reproach unto me, and a derision, all the day.

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  • Jer 51:23
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    23and with thee will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke [of oxen] ; and with thee will I break in pieces governors and deputies.

  • Isa 5:24
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    24Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • Jer 23:1
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    1Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith Jehovah.

  • Ezek 24:15
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    15Also the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

  • Jer 51:25
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    25Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith Jehovah, which destroyest all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

  • Jer 15:12
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    12Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?

  • Isa 30:30
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    30And Jehovah will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of [his] anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones.

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    4And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.

  • Jer 25:8
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    8Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Because ye have not heard my words,

  • Jer 29:19
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    19because they have not hearkened to my words, saith Jehovah, wherewith I sent unto them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith Jehovah.

  • Jer 9:7
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    7Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?

  • Jer 9:9
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    9Shall I not visit them for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

  • Mic 3:5
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    5Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that make my people to err; that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and whoso putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:

  • Jer 18:7
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    7At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;

  • Zech 5:4
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    4I will cause it to go forth, saith Jehovah of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name; and it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

  • Ezek 12:28
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    28Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: There shall none of my words be deferred any more, but the word which I shall speak shall be performed, saith the Lord Jehovah.

  • Isa 28:2
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    2Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand.

  • Isa 33:12
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    12And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.

  • Isa 22:25
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    12For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.

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  • Jer 45:4
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    4Thus shalt thou say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.

  • Jer 17:15
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    15Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of Jehovah? let it come now.

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    11For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

  • Lam 1:13
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    13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

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    9Then Jehovah put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth:

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    4Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire hath devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned: is it profitable for any work?

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    15Behold, I have made thee [to be] a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.