Jeremiah 20:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And I said, `I do not mention Him, Nor do I speak any more in His name,' And it hath been in my heart As a burning fire shut up in my bones, And I have been weary of containing, And I am not able.

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  • Ps 39:3 : 3 Hot `is' my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.
  • Job 32:18-20 : 18 For I have been full of words, Distressed me hath the spirit of my breast, 19 Lo, my breast `is' as wine not opened, Like new bottles it is broken up. 20 I speak, and there is refreshment to me, I open my lips and answer.
  • Acts 4:20 : 20 for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'
  • Jer 6:11 : 11 And with the fury of Jehovah I have been filled, (I have been weary of containing,) To pour `it' on the suckling in the street, And on the assembly of youths together, For even husband with wife are captured, An elder with one full of days,
  • Ezek 3:14 : 14 And a spirit hath lifted me up, and doth take me away, and I go bitterly, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of Jehovah on me `is' strong.
  • Acts 17:16 : 16 and Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, beholding the city wholly given to idolatry,
  • 2 Cor 5:13-15 : 13 for whether we were beside ourselves, `it was' to God; whether we be of sound mind -- `it is' to you, 14 for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died, 15 and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.
  • Acts 18:5 : 5 And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the Spirit, testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ;
  • 1 Cor 9:16-17 : 16 for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid upon me, and wo is to me if I may not proclaim good news; 17 for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly -- with a stewardship I have been entrusted!
  • Luke 9:62 : 62 and Jesus said unto him, `No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'
  • John 1:2-3 : 2 this one was in the beginning with God; 3 all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.
  • John 4:2-3 : 2 (though indeed Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples,) 3 he left Judea and went away again to Galilee,
  • Acts 15:37-38 : 37 And Barnabas counseled to take with `them' John called Mark, 38 and Paul was not thinking it good to take him with them who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and did not go with them to the work;
  • 1 Kgs 19:3-4 : 3 And he feareth, and riseth, and goeth for his life, and cometh in to Beer-Sheba, that `is' Judah's, and leaveth his young man there, 4 and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, `Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I `am' not better than my fathers.'

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