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[Is] not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer [that] breaketh the rock in pieces?

Is not my word {H1697} like {H3541} as a fire {H784}? saith {H5002} the LORD {H3068}; and like a hammer {H6360} that breaketh {H6327} the rock {H5553} in pieces {H6327}?

"Isn't my word like fire," asks ADONAI, "like a hammer shattering rocks?

“Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that smashes a rock?”

Is not my word like fire? saith Jehovah; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

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Cross-References

  • Hebrews 4:12 (36 votes)

    For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

  • Jeremiah 5:14 (31 votes)

    Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

  • Luke 24:32 (27 votes)

    And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?

  • Jeremiah 20:9 (25 votes)

    Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But [his word] was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not [stay].

  • 2 Corinthians 10:4 (22 votes)

    (For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

  • 2 Corinthians 10:5 (22 votes)

    Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

  • Revelation 11:5 (16 votes)

    And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.