“For who has stood in the council of the LORD, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my word, and heard it?”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Jeremiah 23 contains 40 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.