If I say, “I will not mention him or speak any more in his name,” then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.
Jeremiah 23:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Is not my word like fire, says the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces? More versionsKing 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? |
If I say, “I will not mention him or speak any more in his name,” then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.
Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts: Because you have spoken this word, I am now making my words in your mouth a fire and this people wood, and the fire shall devour them.
Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have killed them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.
They said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?”
It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them.
Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and to the other apostles, “Brothers, what should we do?”
to the one group a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is qualified for these things?
Indeed, the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
And if anyone wants to harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes; anyone who wants to harm them must be killed in this manner.