Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Am I only a God who is near, says the Lord, and not a God at a distance?
New American Standard Bible
“And not a God far off?
King James Version
Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
Holman Bible
“Am I a God who is only near”
International Standard Version
"Am I a God who is near," declares the LORD, "rather than a God who is far away?
A Conservative Version
Am I a God at hand, says LORD, and not a God afar off?
American Standard Version
Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off?
Amplified
“Am I a God who is at hand,” says the Lord,
“And not a God far away?”
Darby Translation
Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off?
Julia Smith Translation
Am I God from near, says Jehovah, and not God from far off?
King James 2000
Am I a God at hand, says the LORD, and not a God afar off?
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Am] I a God from near," {declares} Yahweh, "and not a God from far?
Modern King James verseion
Am I a God near, says Jehovah, and not a God afar off?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Am I then God that seeth but the thing, which is nigh at hand, and not that is afar off? sayeth the LORD.
NET Bible
Do you people think that I am some local deity and not the transcendent God?" the Lord asks.
New Heart English Bible
Am I a God at hand,' says the LORD, 'and not a God afar off?
The Emphasized Bible
Am I, a God at hand, Demandeth Yahweh, And not a God afar off?
Webster
Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off.
World English Bible
Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off?
Youngs Literal Translation
A God near am I -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And not a God afar off?
Themes
Closeness » The lord being near
God » Is declared to be » Omnipresent
Interlinear
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 23:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Unfaithful Prophets
22 But if they had been in my secret, then they would have made my people give ear to my words, turning them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. 23 Am I only a God who is near, says the Lord, and not a God at a distance? 24 In what secret place may a man take cover without my seeing him? says the Lord. Is there any place in heaven or earth where I am not? says the Lord.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 139:1-10
O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.
1 Kings 20:23
Then the king of Aram's servants said to him, Their god is a god of the hills; that is why they were stronger than we: but if we make an attack on them in the lowlands, we will certainly be stronger than they.
1 Kings 20:28
And a man of God came up and said to the king of Israel, The Lord says, Because the Aramaeans have said, The Lord is a god of the hills and not of the valleys; I will give all this great army into your hands, and you will see that I am the Lord.
Psalm 113:5
Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,
Ezekiel 20:32-35
And that which comes into your minds will never take place; when you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, servants of wood and stone;
Jonah 1:3-4
And Jonah got up to go in flight to Tarshish, away from the Lord; and he went down to Joppa, and saw there a ship going to Tarshish: so he gave them the price of the journey and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the Lord.