Jeremiah 51:15

He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

In Context

14LORD of hosts has sworn by himself, [saying], Surely I will fill thee with men as with the canker-worm, and they shall lift up a shout against thee.

16When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

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Cross References

Job 9:8who alone stretches out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea,

Psalms 104:24O LORD, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom have thou made them all. The earth is full of thy riches.

Psalms 136:5to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his loving kindness [is] forever,

Psalms 148:1Praise ye LORD. Praise ye LORD from the heavens. Praise him in the heights.

Isaiah 40:22[It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in,

Isaiah 42:5Thus says God, LORD, he who created the heavens, and stretched them forth, he who spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those who walk in it,

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 51:2-59

The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; 2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her… Read the whole commentary →

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