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22 Had they stood in my council,
    they would have proclaimed my words to my people,
They would have brought them back from their evil ways
    and from their wicked deeds.
23 Am I a God near at hand only—oracle of the Lord(A)
    and not a God far off?[a]
24 Can anyone hide in secret
    without my seeing them?—oracle of the Lord.
Do I not fill
    heaven and earth?—oracle of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 23:23–24 Near at hand only…far off: a divine claim that no one can hide from God and that God is aware of all that happens.

22 But if they had stood in my council,(A)
    they would have proclaimed(B) my words to my people
and would have turned(C) them from their evil ways
    and from their evil deeds.(D)

23 “Am I only a God nearby,(E)
declares the Lord,
    “and not a God far away?
24 Who can hide(F) in secret places
    so that I cannot see them?”
declares the Lord.
    “Do not I fill heaven and earth?”(G)
declares the Lord.

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