Jeremiah 23:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Mine 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.

Jeremiah 23:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Habakkuk 3:16
When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
Daniel 8:27
And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.
Isaiah 51:21
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Psalms 60:3
Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-32)

Here is a long lesson for the false prophets. As none were more bitter and spiteful against God’s true prophets than they, so there were none on whom the true prophets were more severe, and justly. The prophet had complained to God of those false prophets (Jer. 14:13), and had often foretold that they should be involved in the common ruin; but here they have woes of their own. I. He expresses the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. because of the prophets--so the Masorites and Targum. But Vulgate, Septuagint, &c., make this the inscription of the prophecy, Concerning the Prophets: as in Jr 46:2; 48:1; 49:1. Jeremiah expresses his horror at the so-called “prophets” not warning the people, though iniquity so fearfully abounded, soon to be followed by awful judgments. bones shake--(Ha 3:16). drunken--God’s judgments are repr…