Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"Am I a God who is near," declares the LORD, "rather than a God who is far away?
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”
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.
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 If they had stood in my council and had delivered my words to my people, then they would have turned them back from their evil way, from their evil deeds." 23 "Am I a God who is near," declares the LORD, "rather than a God who is far away? 24 If a person hides himself in secret places, will I not see him?" declares the LORD. "I fill the heavens and the earth, do I not?" declares the LORD.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 139:1-10
LORD, you have examined me; you have known me.
1 Kings 20:23
Sure enough, the advisors to the king of Aram told him, "Their gods are mountain gods. That's why they were stronger than we were. But when we fight them on the plains, we're certain to be the stronger army!
1 Kings 20:28
Right about then, a man of God approached and told the king of Israel, "This is what the LORD says: "Because the Arameans keep saying "The LORD is a mountain god, but isn't a valley god," I'm going to deliver this entire vast army right into your control, so you'll learn that I really am the LORD.'"
Psalm 113:5
Who is like the LORD our God, enthroned on high,
Ezekiel 20:32-35
The thing that you're imagining is never going to happen, since you're thinking, "We'll be like the nations, like the clans of other lands who serve gods made from wood and stone."'"
Jonah 1:3-4
But Jonah got up and fled from the LORD to Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, secured passage on a ship bound for Tarshish, paid the fare, and boarded, intending to go with the mariners to Tarshish to escape from the LORD.