Jeremiah 10:16
The portion of Jacob is not like these. For he is the former of all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance. LORD of hosts is his name.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
15They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they shall perish.
17Gather up thy wares out of the land, O thou who abides in the siege.
Cross References
Exodus 34:9And he said, If now I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
Psalms 16:5LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup. Thou maintain my lot.
Psalms 73:26My flesh and my heart fails, [but] God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalms 119:57LORD is my portion; I have said that I would observe thy words.
Psalms 142:5I cried to thee, O LORD. I said, Thou are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.
Isaiah 19:25in that LORD of hosts has blessed them, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 10:2-17
Solemn Charge to Israel; The Folly of Idolatry. ( b. c. 606.) 1 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 2 Thus saith the Lord , Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 5… Read the whole commentary →