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Jeremiah 23:22
“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.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 23
20
The anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand it perfectly.
21
I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I didn't speak to them, yet they prophesied.
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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.
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