Parallel Verses
World English Bible
Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off?
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?”
Bible in Basic English
Am I only a God who is near, says the Lord, and not a God at a distance?
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.
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 stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. 23 Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off? 24 Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 139:1-10
Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
1 Kings 20:23
The servants of the king of Syria said to him, "Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we. But let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.
1 Kings 20:28
A man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Because the Syrians have said, "Yahweh is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys;" therefore I will deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.'"
Psalm 113:5
Who is like Yahweh, our God, who has his seat on high,
Ezekiel 20:32-35
and that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in that you say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
Jonah 1:3-4
But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.