Jeremiah 23:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ Concerning the prophets: My heart is crushed within me; all my bones shake; I have become like a drunkard, like one overcome by wine, because of the Lord and because of his holy words.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Concerning the prophets: My heart [says Jeremiah] is broken within me, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, a man whom wine has overcome, because of the Lord and because of His holy words [which He has pronounced against unfaithful leaders].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Concerning 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.

Common English Bible

⁹ As for the prophets: My heart inside me is broken; my body aches. I stagger like a drunk who has had too much wine to drink, because of the LORD and because of God’s holy words.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ To the prophets: "My heart is crushed within me. All my bones are trembling. I have become like an inebriated man, and like a man maddened by wine, before the face of the Lord, and before the face of his holy words.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ To the prophets: My heart is broken within me, all my bones tremble: I am become as a drunken man, and as a man full of wine, at the presence of the Lord and at the presence of his holy words.

Jeremiah 23:9 Cross References

Psalm 60:3

You have made your people suffer hard things; you have given us wine to drink that made us reel.

Psalm 69:20

Insults have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

Isaiah 28:1

Woe to the proud garland of the drunkards of Ephraim and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, at the head of the fertile valley, those overcome with wine!

Isaiah 29:9

Be astounded and stunned; blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk but not from wine; stagger but not from strong drink!

Isaiah 51:21

Therefore hear this, you who are wounded, who are drunk but not with wine:

Isaiah 6:5

And I said, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Jeremiah 20:9

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 36:16

When they heard all the words, they turned to one another in alarm and said to Baruch, “We certainly must report all these words to the king.”

Jeremiah 5:31

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule as the prophets direct; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

Jeremiah 8:18

My joy is gone; grief is upon me; my heart is sick.

Jeremiah 9:1

O that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Lamentations 3:15

He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood.

Ezekiel 13:3

Thus says the Lord God: Alas for the senseless prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!

Ezekiel 9:4

and said to him, “Go through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of those who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”

Ezekiel 9:6

Cut down old men, young men and young women, little children and women, but touch no one who has the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were in front of the house.

Daniel 8:27

So I, Daniel, was overcome and lay sick for some days; then I arose and went about the king’s business. But I was dismayed by the vision and did not understand it.

Habakkuk 3:16

I hear, and I tremble within; my lips quiver at the sound. Rottenness enters into my bones, and my steps tremble beneath me. I wait quietly for the day of calamity to come upon the people who attack us.

Romans 7:9

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived