Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
"[Is] not my word like fire?" {declares} Yahweh, "and like a blacksmith's hammer [that] breaks a rock into pieces?
New American Standard Bible
“Is not My word like
King James Version
Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Holman Bible
“Is not My word like fire”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and like a hammer that pulverizes rock?
International Standard Version
"My message is like fire or like a hammer that shatters rock, is it not?" declares the LORD.
A Conservative Version
Is not my word like fire? says LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
American Standard Version
Is not my word like fire? saith Jehovah; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Amplified
“Is not My word like fire [that consumes all that cannot endure the test]?” says the Lord, “and like a hammer that breaks the [most stubborn] rock [in pieces]?
Bible in Basic English
Is not my word like fire? says the Lord; and like a hammer, smashing the rock to bits?
Darby Translation
Is not my word like a fire, saith Jehovah; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Julia Smith Translation
So is not my word as fire? says Jehovah; and as a hammer, it will break the rock in pieces.
King James 2000
Is not my word like a fire? says the LORD; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
Modern King James verseion
Is not My Word like a fire? says Jehovah; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Is not my word like a fire, sayeth the LORD, and like a hammer that breaketh the hard stone?
NET Bible
My message is like a fire that purges dross! It is like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces! I, the Lord, so affirm it!
New Heart English Bible
'Isn't my word like fire?' says the LORD; 'and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
The Emphasized Bible
Is not my word, like this, Like fire? Demandeth Yahweh, - And like a hammer, that breaketh in pieces a cliff?
Webster
Is not my word like a fire? saith the LORD? and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
World English Bible
Isn't my word like fire? says Yahweh; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
Youngs 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.
Themes
Dream » Instances of » False prophets pretended to receive revelations through
Fire » Illustrative of » The word of God
God » Mighty in its influence » A crushing hammer
Power » Of the word » A crushing hammer
Rocks » Hammers used for breaking
Sending and those sent » Who the lord did not send
The bible » Mighty in its influence » A crushing hammer
The word of God » Mighty in its influence » A crushing hammer
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 23:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Unfaithful Prophets
28 The prophet who [has] with him a dream, let him tell [the] dream. But [the prophet] who [has] my word with him, let him speak my word faithfully. {What is straw compared to wheat}?" {declares} Yahweh. 29 "[Is] not my word like fire?" {declares} Yahweh, "and like a blacksmith's hammer [that] breaks a rock into pieces? 30 "{Therefore} look, I [am] against the prophets," {declares} Yahweh, "who steal my words each one from his neighbor.
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:14
{Therefore} thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, "Because you have spoken this word, look, I [am] making my words in your mouth like a fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them.
Jeremiah 20:9
But [if] I say, "I will not mention him and I will no longer speak in his name," then it becomes in my heart like a fire burning, locked up in my bones, and I struggle to contain [it], and I am not able.
2 Corinthians 10:4-5
for the weapons of our warfare [are] not merely human, but powerful to God for the tearing down of fortresses, tearing down arguments
Luke 24:32
And they said to one another, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?"
John 6:63
The Spirit is the one who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
Acts 2:3
And divided tongues like fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them.
Acts 2:37
Now [when they] heard [this], they were pierced to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, "What should we do, men [and] brothers?"
2 Corinthians 2:16
to those on the one hand an odor from death to death, [and] to those on the other hand a fragrance from life to life. And who [is] qualified for these [things]?
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God [is] living and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, both joints and marrow, and able to judge the reflections and thoughts of the heart.
Revelation 11:5
And if anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouth and consumes their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, in this way he must be killed.