Whenever I said, “Let me not mention Him, nor speak in His Name again,” it was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones. And I became weary of holding it back, and was helpless.
Jeremiah 23:29 - The Scriptures 2009 “Is not My Word like a fire?” declares יהוה, “and like a hammer that shatters a rock? Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Is not My word like fire [that consumes all that cannot endure the test]? says the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks in pieces the rock [of most stubborn resistance]? American Standard Version (1901) Is not my word like fire? saith Jehovah; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? Common English Bible Isn’t my word like fire and like a hammer that shatters rock? declares the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version Are not my words like a fire, says the Lord, and like a hammer crushing rock? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Are not my words as a fire, saith the Lord, and as a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? |
Whenever I said, “Let me not mention Him, nor speak in His Name again,” it was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones. And I became weary of holding it back, and was helpless.
Therefore thus said יהוה Elohim of hosts, “Because you speak this word, see, I am making My words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
“Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have killed them by the words of My mouth. And my right-rulings break forth as the light.
And they said to each other, “Was not our heart burning within us as He was speaking to us on the way, and as He was opening the Scriptures to us?”
It is the Spirit that gives life, the flesh does not profit at all. The words that I speak to you are Spirit and are life.
And there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and settled on each one of them.
And having heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Kĕpha and the rest of the emissaries, “Men, brothers, what shall we do?”
To the one we are the smell of death to death, and to the other the fragrance of life to life. And who is competent for these?
For the Word of Elohim is living, and working, and sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through even to the dividing of being and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
And if anyone wishes to harm them, fire comes out from their mouth and consumes their enemies. And if anyone wishes to harm them, he has to be killed in that way.