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Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt

Jeremiah 23:24

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Jeremiah 23:24 (WEB)

Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says the LORD. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says the LORD.

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  • “Nor is he able to understand the words, “Do I not fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.”” — editor's note: Cf. Jer. xxiii. 24.

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  • “And if the voices of the prophets say that God “comes down,” who has said, “Do I not fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord,” the term is used in a figurative sense.” — editor's note: Cf. Jer. xxiii. 24.

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  • “And it is absurd, when He who fills heaven and earth, and who said, “Do I not fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord,” is with us, and near us (for I believe Him when He says, “I am a God nigh at hand, and not afar off, saith the Lord”) to seek to pray to sun or moon, or one of…” — editor's note: Cf. Jer. xxiii. 24.

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  • “This also, I think, is indicated in sacred Scripture by the declaration of the prophet, “Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord;” and again, “The heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool;” and by the Saviour’s words, when He says that we are to swear “neither by heaven, for it…” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 24.

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  • Isaiah 21:3 and Jeremiah 23:24 share the same wording (9 words).

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