Jeremiah 20:9

Modern English Version

But if I say, “I will not make mention of Him nor speak anymore in His name,” then His word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; and I was weary of forbearing it, and I could not endure it.

Cross References

Psalm 39:3

My heart was hot within me. While I was musing, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:

Jeremiah 23:29

Is not My word like fire, says the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

Jeremiah 23:9

My heart is broken within me, because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, like a man overcome by wine, because of the Lord, and because of His holy words.

Jeremiah 4:19

My soul, my soul! I am pained at my very heart. My heart makes a noise in me. I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Jeremiah 6:11

Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in. I will pour it out upon the children in the street and upon the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.

Ezekiel 3:14

So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.

Ezekiel 3:3

He said to me, Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your inward parts with this scroll that I give you. Then I ate it, and it was as honey for sweetness in my mouth.

Amos 3:8

The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken; who can but prophesy?

Jonah 1:2

“Get up, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry out against it, because their wickedness has come up before Me.”

Jonah 1:3

But Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found there a ship going to Tarshish. He paid its fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.

Luke 9:62

Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back at things is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Acts 17:16

While Paul waited for them in Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.

Acts 18:5

When Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul was pressed by the Spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

Acts 4:20

For we cannot help but declare what we have seen and heard.”