Jeremiah 23:29 - Forerunner Commentary

Jeremiah 23:29

27 who try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which everyone tells his neighbor, ^aas their fathers forgot My name for Baal.

28 “The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream;
And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully.
What is the chaff to the wheat?” says the Lord.

29 “Is not My word like a ^afire?” says the Lord,
“And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

30 “Therefore behold, ^aI am against the prophets,” says the Lord, “who steal My words every one from his neighbor.

31 Behold, I am ^aagainst the prophets,” says the Lord, “who use their tongues and say, ‘He says.’

32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” says the Lord, “and tell them, and cause My people to err by their ^alies and by ^btheir recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not ^cprofit this people at all,” says the Lord.

33 “So when these people or the prophet or the priest ask you, saying, ‘What is ^athe oracle of the Lord?’ you shall then say to them,² ‘What oracle?’ I will even forsake you,” says the Lord.

34 “And as for the prophet and the priest and the people who say, ‘The¹ oracle of the Lord!’ I will even punish that man and his house.

35 Thus every one of you shall say to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, ‘What has the Lord answered?’ and, ‘What has the Lord spoken?’

36 And the oracle of the Lord you shall mention no more. For every man’s word will be his oracle, for you have ^aperverted the words of the living God, the Lord of hosts, our God.

Verse Comparison: Jeremiah 23:29

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

Amplified® Bible
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]?

Contemporary English Version
My words are a powerful fire; they are a hammer that shatters rocks.

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

Good News Bible
My message is like a fire and like a hammer that breaks rocks in pieces.

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

New American Standard Bible
"Is not My word like fire? declares the LORD, "and like a hammer which shatters a rock?"

New International Version
"Is not my word like fire," declares the LORD, "and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?

New King James Version
' Is not My word like a fire?' says the LORD,
' And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
" Does not My word resemble a fire?" declares the LORD, "and like a hammer which shatters a rock?

Revised Standard Version
Is not my word like fire, says the LORD, and like a hammer which breaks the rock in pieces?

Young's Literal Translation
Is it not thus? My word `is' as a fire, An affirmation of Jehovah. And as a hammer -- it breaketh in pieces a rock.

New English Translation
My message is like a fire that purges dross!¹ It is like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces!² I, the Lord, so affirm it!³

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