 | John Martin Bracke - Religion - 2000 - 244 pages
...and destruction!" For the word of the LORD has become for me a reproach and derision all day long. 4 If I say, "I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name," then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I am weary with holding... | |
 | Jill Briscoe - Religion - 2001 - 204 pages
...one who delivered it as well. "The word of the Lord has brought me insult and reproach all day long. But if I say, 'I will not mention him or speak any more in his name,' his word is in my heart like a tire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weari- of holding it in; indeed. I cannot" (Jeremiah 20:8-9).... | |
 | William Carl Placher - Religion - 2001 - 244 pages
...Jeremiah complained that God kept forcing him to give bad news that made people hate him. And yet: If I say, "I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name," then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I am weary with holding... | |
 | Victoria Silver - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 432 pages
...and destruction!" For the word of the Lord has become for me a reproach and derision all day long. If I say, "I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name," there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it... | |
 | Donald E. Gowan - Religion - 2003 - 582 pages
...'Violence and destruction!'" (Jer 20:7-8). Yet the passion of God is unrelenting within the prophet: "If I say, 'I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,' then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I am weary with holding... | |
 | Frank P. DeSiano - Religion - 2003 - 138 pages
...keeping the law. "...For the word of the LORD has become for me a reproach and derision all day long. If I say, 'I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,' then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I am weary with holding... | |
 | Barbara Ellen Bowe - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2003 - 242 pages
...and destruction!" For the word of the LORD has become for me a reproach and derision all day long. If I say, "I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name," then within me there is something like a burning tire shut up in my bones; I am weary with holding... | |
 | Walther Zimmerli - Religion - 2002 - 204 pages
...how he has attempted to resist the necessity of proclaiming words that bore oppressively upon him, "If I say, 'I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,'" he had to admit, "there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary... | |
 | Greg Odgen, Greg Ogden - Clergy - 2003 - 292 pages
...prophetic word, but he became more weary putting the lid on the message than he did letting it flow: "If I say, 'I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,' then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I am weary with holding... | |
 | David M. Brown - Preaching - 2003 - 628 pages
...this earth for. In Jeremiah 20:9, the prophet writes: "God's word is in my heart like afire, afire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot. " Jeremiah was wrestling with his call to preach. A sermon was burning in him, and he couldn 't keep... | |
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I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name," there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot. 
