Jeremiah 32:27
in Jeremiah 32“Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for Me?
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Behold, I am Jehovah, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?
KJV
Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
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This verse in Jeremiah 32
Commentary
3 notes on this verse(Verse 27) Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult (or impossible) for me? Or will any word be hidden from me? I am, she says, the Lord God of all flesh. Not at all of all nations, nor of the people of Israel, or certainly, as He is often called by the holy ones, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, but God said to all flesh, so that it is believed that He made both rational and brute animals Himself.
This site's exposition
Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah, saying
on Jeremiah 32:26-35
The Lord answers Jeremiah's own question back to him, is there any thing too hard for me?, the field's purchase now set against the city's certain fall by the same power that makes both possible. The indictment names the specific sin repeatedly, the high places of Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, sons and daughters passed through the fire unto Molech, an abomination the text states plainly the Lord never commanded nor imagined. The valley named here is the same Hinnom the closing verses of chapter 31 declare consecrated ground, judgment's site becoming the site of holiness in the very next chapter's promise.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Charles Spurgeon1834–1892
The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2675: “Jehovah's Challenge” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) · Written before 1892.
A Truth of God may be sincerely believed by us and yet it may do us good to have it put in the form of a question. As I read the chapter, I called your attention to Jeremiah's confident declaration to God, "There is nothing too hard for You." Yet in our text, which is only a few verses further on in the chapter, the Lord says to this same Prophet, "Is there anything too hard for Me?" I think the explanation of this mystery is that we do not always thoroughly believe even all that we do truly believe.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הִנֵּה֙ | hineh | here! | H2009 → | 843 times |
| אֲנִ֣י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| יְהוָ֔ה | yahweh | [am] Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֱלֹהֵ֖י | ʾelohei | [the] God of | H430 → | 2601 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| בָּשָׂ֑ר | basar | flesh | H1320 → | 270 times |
| הֲֽמִמֶּ֔נִּי | hamimeni | ¿ for me | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| יִפָּלֵ֖א | yipale' | is it [too] difficult | H6381 → | 71 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | any | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| דָּבָֽר׃ | davar | thing | H1697 → | 1440 times |
הִנֵּה֙here!
hinehH2009 →843 times
אֲנִ֣יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
יְהוָ֔ה[am] Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֱלֹהֵ֖י[the] God of
ʾeloheiH430 →2601 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
בָּשָׂ֑רflesh
basarH1320 →270 times
הֲֽמִמֶּ֔נִּי¿ for me
hamimeniH4480 →1188 times
יִפָּלֵ֖אis it [too] difficult
yipale'H6381 →71 times
כָּל־any
kol-H3605 →5413 times
דָּבָֽר׃thing
davarH1697 →1440 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Matthew 19:26Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
it leads to
- Luke 1:37
For no word from God will ever fail.”
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Job 42:2
“I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Mark 10:27
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”
- Luke 18:27
But Jesus said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”
- Jeremiah 32:17
“Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!
- Luke 1:37
Through
Jeremiah 32:17“Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!
it leads to
- Genesis 18:14
Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”
- Matthew 19:26
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
- Exodus 20:11
For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath…
- Genesis 18:14
Where this verse is studied
About Jeremiah
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2675: “Jehovah's Challenge” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) and Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah.