Catholic Public Domain Version
"Do you not realize that I am a God close by, says the Lord, and not a God far away? "
— Jeremiah 23:23, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?”
“Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off? ”
“Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off?”
“Do you people think that I am some local deity and not the transcendent God?” the LORD asks.”
“Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?”
“Am I only a God who is near, says the Lord, and not a God at a distance?”
“Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?”
The fury of the Lord will not return until it succeeds, and until it completes the plan of his heart. In the last days, you will understand this counsel.
“I did not send these prophets, yet they hurry forward. I was not speaking to them, yet they were prophesying.
If they had stood in my counsel, and if I had made my words known to my people, certainly I would have turned them away from their evil ways and from their most wicked plans.
Do you not realize that I am a God close by, says the Lord, and not a God far away?
If a man is hidden in concealed places, do I not see him, says the Lord? Do I not fill up heaven and earth, says the Lord?
I have heard what the prophets have said, prophesying falsehoods in my name, and also saying: ‘I have dreamed! I have dreamed!’
How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who predict what is false, and who prophesy deceptions from their own heart?