Jeremiah 23:29 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ Are not my words as a fire, saith the Lord, and as a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

Jeremiah 23:29 Cross References

Jeremiah 20:9

And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in mine heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot contain.

Jeremiah 5:14

Wherefore thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

Hosea 6:5

Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgements are as the light that goeth forth.

Luke 24:32

And they said one to another, Was not our heart burning within us, while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures?

John 6:63

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.

Acts 2:3

And there appeared unto them tongues parting asunder, like as of fire; and it sat upon each one of them.

Acts 2:37

Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles, Brethren, what shall we do?

2 Corinthians 2:16

to the one a savour from death unto death; to the other a savour from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Revelation 11:5

And if any man desireth to hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man shall desire to hurt them, in this manner must he be killed.