Jeremiah 23:29 - Revised Standard Version CI

²⁹ Is not my word like fire, says the Lord, and like a hammer which breaks the rock in pieces?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ 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

²⁹ 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)

²⁹ Is not my word like fire? saith Jehovah; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

Common English Bible

²⁹ Isn’t my word like fire and like a hammer that shatters rock? declares the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ Are not my words like a fire, says the Lord, and like a hammer crushing rock?

Jeremiah 23:29 Cross References

Jeremiah 20:9

If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.

Jeremiah 5:14

Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts: “Because they have spoken this word, behold, I am making my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and the fire shall devour them.

Hosea 6:5

Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.

Luke 24:32

They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the scriptures?”

John 6:63

It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

Acts 2:3

And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them.

Acts 2:37

Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do?”

2 Corinthians 2:16

to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Revelation 11:5

And if any one would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes; if any one would harm them, thus he is doomed to be killed.