Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
“Am I a God who is only near”
New American Standard Bible
“And not a God far off?
King James Version
Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
International Standard Version
"Am I a God who is near," declares the LORD, "rather than a God who is far away?
A Conservative Version
Am I a God at hand, says LORD, and not a God afar off?
American Standard Version
Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off?
Amplified
“Am I a God who is at hand,” says the Lord,
“And not a God far away?”
Bible in Basic English
Am I only a God who is near, says the Lord, and not a God at a distance?
Darby Translation
Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off?
Julia Smith Translation
Am I God from near, says Jehovah, and not God from far off?
King James 2000
Am I a God at hand, says the LORD, and not a God afar off?
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Am] I a God from near," {declares} Yahweh, "and not a God from far?
Modern King James verseion
Am I a God near, says Jehovah, and not a God afar off?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Am I then God that seeth but the thing, which is nigh at hand, and not that is afar off? sayeth the LORD.
NET Bible
Do you people think that I am some local deity and not the transcendent God?" the Lord asks.
New Heart English Bible
Am I a God at hand,' says the LORD, 'and not a God afar off?
The Emphasized Bible
Am I, a God at hand, Demandeth Yahweh, And not a God afar off?
Webster
Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off.
World English Bible
Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off?
Youngs Literal Translation
A God near am I -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And not a God afar off?
Themes
Closeness » The lord being near
God » Is declared to be » Omnipresent
Interlinear
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 23:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Unfaithful Prophets
22
they would have enabled My people to hear My words
and would have turned them back from their evil ways
and their evil deeds.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 139:1-10
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.
1 Kings 20:23
Now the king of Aram’s servants said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hill country.
1 Kings 20:28
Then the man of God
Psalm 113:5
the One enthroned on high,
Ezekiel 20:32-35
“When you say, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the peoples of other countries, worshiping wood and stone,’
Jonah 1:3-4
However, Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish