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Jeremiah 23:22 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 23 · verse 22
But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.Jeremiah 23:22 · King James Version
Jeremiah 23:22 in context
20The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
21I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
23Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
24Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- counselçôwda sessionH5475 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- turnedshûwbto turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figurativelyH7725 →
- stoodʻâmadto stand, in various relationsH5975 →
- wordsdâbâra wordH1697 →
- hearshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
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Here is a long lesson for the false prophets. As none were more bitter and spiteful against God's true prophets than they, so there were none on whom the true prophets were more severe, and justly.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-32