Jeremiah 23:9

Translations

Modern

As for the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD, because of His holy words.

Traditional

Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the Lord, and because of the words of his holiness.

Literal

Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man overcome by wine, from the face of YHWH and from the face of His holy words.

Latin

Ad prophetas: Contritum est cor meum in medio mei; contremuerunt omnia ossa mea: factus sum quasi vir ebrius, et quasi homo madidus a vino, a facie Domini, et a facie verborum sanctorum ejus.

Original

Hebrew

English

As for the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD, because of His holy words.

Notes

Jeremiah 23:9–10

Jeremiah stood before the Lord, shocked by the harshness of the Lord's judgments against the religious leaders.

Jeremiah 23:9–32

These short poems and interjections seem to be parts of a session where the Lord prepared Jeremiah to confront the false prophets of Jerusalem. These leaders misused the Lord's name, which made him angry (Exodus 20:7).

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Habakkuk 3:16
I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.
Psalm 60:3
You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.
Isaiah 51:21
Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.
Lamentations 3:15
He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
Daniel 8:27
I, Daniel, was exhausted and lay ill for days. Then I got up and went about the king’s business. I was confounded by the vision; it was beyond understanding.
Isaiah 6:5
Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
2 Kings 22:19–20
…because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
Isaiah 29:9
Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.
Romans 7:9
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
Ezekiel 9:4
“Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”
Isaiah 28:1
Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine.
Jeremiah 14:17–18
You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.

Glossary

Book of Jeremiah Prophet, Prophetess

Topics

Prophets: Inspiration of Prophets: Sometimes Received Divine Communications and Uttered The Holiness of God: Exhibited in His: Words Wine: Admonitions Against the Use of

Jeremiah 23:9

Translations?

Original?

Notes?

Events?

Related verses?

Glossary?

Topics?