Jeremiah 51:15

He has made the earth by his power; he set in place the world by his wisdom. 1 By his understanding he stretched out the heavens. 1

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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

14Yahweh of hosts has sworn by his own life, 'I will fill you with men, like a swarm of locusts, 1 and they will raise a battle cry against you.' 1

16When he thunders, there is the roar of waters in the heavens, for he brings up the mist from the ends of the earth. 1 He makes lightning for rain and sends out wind from his storehouses. 1

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Cross References

Job 9:8who by himself stretches out the heavens 1 and tramples down the waves of the sea, 1

Psalms 104:24Yahweh, how many and varied are your works! 1 With wisdom you made them all; 1 the earth overflows with your works. 1

Psalms 136:5to him who by wisdom made the heavens, 1 for his covenant faithfulness endures forever. 1

Psalms 148:1Praise Yahweh. 1 Praise Yahweh, you in the heavens; 1 praise him, you in the heights. 1

Isaiah 40:22He is the one who sits above the horizon of the earth; and the inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. 1 He stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out as a tent to live in. 1

Isaiah 42:5This is what God Yahweh says— 1 the one who created the heavens and stretched them out, the one who made the earth and all that it produces, 1 the one who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who live on it: 1

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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