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Jeremiah Chapter 23 verse 23 Holy Bible

ASV Jeremiah 23:23

Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off?
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BBE Jeremiah 23:23

Am I only a God who is near, says the Lord, and not a God at a distance?
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DARBY Jeremiah 23:23

Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off?
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KJV Jeremiah 23:23

Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
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WBT Jeremiah 23:23

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WEB Jeremiah 23:23

Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off?
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YLT Jeremiah 23:23

A God near `am' I -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And not a God afar off?
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Jeremiah 23 : 23 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 23-32. - Jehovah has observed and will punish the false pretensions of the prophets. Verses 23, 24. - Am I a God at hand, etc.? ("At hand" equivalent to "near.") Eliphaz may again assist us with an illustration. "And thou sayest " - he is expostulating with Job - "What doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; yea, he walketh upon the vault of heaven" (Job 22:13, 14). It might seem, from the preponderance of the false prophets ever the true, as if Jehovah were unaware of the mischief. Not so; Jehovah is omnipresent.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) Am I a God at hand . . .?--This and the two questions that follow are essentially the same in thought. The false prophets acted as if God were far away out of their sight (Psalm 10:11; Psalm 73:11; Psalm 94:7), not knowing or caring what men did, as if their affairs, as it has been epigrammatically said, came under a "colonial department." The true prophet feels that He is equally near, equally God, in all places alike. Familiar as the word omnipresence is to us--so familiar as almost to have lost its power--the fact, when we realise it, is as awful now as it was when it presented itself to the souls of Patriarch, Psalmist, or Prophet. (Genesis 16:13; Psalm 32:6-7; Psalm 73:23-26; Psalm 139:7-12; Amos 9:2-4; Job 11:8-9. . . .