Jeremiah 23:29

In 11 translations

BSB

“Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that smashes a rock?”

KJV

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

WEB

“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

ASV

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

LSV

“Is it not thus? My word [is] as fire,” || A declaration of YHWH. “And as a hammer—it breaks a rock in pieces.

YLT

Is it not thus? My word [is] as a fire, An affirmation of Jehovah. And as a hammer — it breaketh in pieces a rock.

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

Is not my word euen like a fire, sayeth the Lord? and like an hammer, that breaketh the stone?

JPS

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

LXXE

Behold, are not my words as fire? saith the Lord; and as an axe cutting the rock?

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WLC

הֲל֨וֹא כֹ֧ה דְבָרִ֛י כָּאֵ֖שׁ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה וּכְפַטִּ֖ישׁ יְפֹ֥צֵֽץ סָֽלַע׃

LXX-Br

Οὐκ ἰδοὺ οἱ λόγοι μου, ὥσπερ πῦρ, λέγει Κύριος, καὶ ὡς πέλυξ κόπτων πέτραν;

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• Hebrews 4:12For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
• Jeremiah 5:14Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.
• Luke 24:32They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
• Jeremiah 20:9If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
• 2 Corinthians 10:4–5The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take…
• John 6:63The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
• Revelation 11:5If anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouths and devours their enemies. In this way, anyone who wants to harm them must be killed.
• Acts 2:3They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.
• Acts 2:37When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
• 2 Corinthians 2:16To the one, we are an odor of death and demise; to the other, a fragrance that brings life. And who is qualified for such a task?

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