My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:
Jeremiah 20:9 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can't [contain]. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If I say, I will not make mention of [the Lord] or speak any more in His name, in my mind and heart it is as if there were a burning fire shut up in my bones. And I am weary of enduring and holding it in; I cannot [contain it any longer]. American Standard Version (1901) And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot contain. Common English Bible I thought, I’ll forget him; I’ll no longer speak in his name. But there’s an intense fire in my heart, trapped in my bones. I’m drained trying to contain it; I’m unable to do it. Catholic Public Domain Version Then I said: I will not call him to mind, nor will I speak any longer in his name. And my heart became like a raging fire, enclosed within my bones. And I became weary of continuing to bear it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Then I said: I will not make mention of him nor speak any more in his name. And there came in my heart as a burning fire, shut up in my bones: and I was wearied, not being able to bear it. |
My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:
Isn't my word like fire? says the LORD; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
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 has overcome, because of the LORD, and because of his holy words.
My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my shalom; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the shofar, the alarm of war.
Therefore I am full of the wrath of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: pour it out on the children in the street, and on 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.
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 on me.
He said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken. Who can but prophesy?
*Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.*
But Yonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Yafo, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
But Yeshua said to him, *No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.*
Now while Sha'ul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
But when Sila and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Sha'ul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Yeshua was the Messiah.