Jeremiah 20:9 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁹ I say, ‘I won’t mention him or speak any longer in his name.’ But his message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones. I become tired of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ 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

⁹ 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)

⁹ 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

⁹ 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

⁹ 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

⁹ 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.

Jeremiah 20:9 Tagairtí Cros

Jeremiah 23:29

‘Is not my word like fire’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #‘and like a hammer that pulverises rock?

Jeremiah 23:9

Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the  Lord, because of his holy words.

Jeremiah 4:19

My anguish, my anguish!  I writhe in agony! Oh, the pain in   my heart! My heart pounds; I cannot be silent. For you, my soul, have heard the sound of the ram’s horn – the shout of battle.

Jeremiah 6:11

But I am full of the  Lord’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. Pour it out on the children in the street, on the gathering of young men as well. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old with the very old.

Ezekiel 3:14

The Spirit lifted me up and took me away. I left in bitterness and in an angry spirit, and the Lord’s hand was on me powerfully.

Ezekiel 3:3

‘Son of man,’ he said to me, ‘feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving you.’ So I ate it,  and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.

Amos 3:8

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

Jonah 1:2

‘Get up!  Go to the great city  of Nineveh  and preach against it  because their evil  has come up before me.’

Jonah 1:3

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

Luke 9:62

But Jesus said to him, ‘No one who puts his hand to the plough and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.’

Acts 17:16

While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply distressed when he saw that the city was full of idols.

Acts 18:5

When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself to preaching the word  and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.

Acts 4:20

for we are unable to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.’