Jeremiah 10:16
The portion of Jacob is not like them; for it is he that hath formed all [things], and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.
Darby Translation
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 baggage out of the land, O inhabitress of the fortress.
Cross References
Exodus 34:9and said, If indeed I have found grace in thine eyes, Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in our midst; for it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for an inheritance!
Psalms 16:5Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
Psalms 73:26My flesh and my heart faileth: God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever.
Psalms 119:57CHETH. My portion, O Jehovah, I have said, is to keep thy words.
Psalms 142:5I cried unto thee, Jehovah; I said, Thou art my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.
Isaiah 19:25whom Jehovah of hosts will bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine 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 →