Jer.20.9

Jeremiah 20:9

KJV

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.

Jeremiah’s Complaint

Cross References

Acts 4:20

KJV

For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

The Name Forbidden

1 Kings 19:3

KJV

And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.

Elijah Flees from Jezebel

1 Kings 19:4

KJV

¶ But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

Elijah Flees from Jezebel

Job 32:18

KJV

For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.

Elihu Rebukes Job’s Friends

Psalm 39:3

KJV

My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

I Will Watch My Ways

For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

Jeremiah 4:19

KJV

¶ My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Lamentation for Judah

Jeremiah 6:11

KJV GOD

Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

Jerusalem’s Final Warning

Jeremiah 23:9

KJV

¶ 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.

Lying Prophets

Jeremiah 23:29

KJV GOD

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

Lying Prophets

Ezekiel 3:3

KJV GOD

And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

Ezekiel Eats the Scroll

Ezekiel 3:14

KJV Holy Spirit

So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.

Ezekiel Eats the Scroll

Amos 3:8

KJV GOD

The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

Witnesses against Israel

Jonah 1:2

KJV GOD

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

Jonah Flees from the LORD

Jonah 1:3

KJV

But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.