Jeremiah 51:15

The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

Majority Standard Bible

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

14The LORD of Hosts has sworn by Himself: “Surely I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you.”

16When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

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Cross References

Job 9:8He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

Psalms 104:24How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

Psalms 136:5By His insight He made the heavens. His loving devotion endures forever.

Psalms 148:1Hallelujah! Praise the LORD from the heavens; praise Him in the highest places.

Isaiah 40:22He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

Isaiah 42:5This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life 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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