Jeremiah 10:16
Not like these, is the portion of Jacob, For the fashioner of all things, is, he, And, Israel, is his inherited sceptre,—Yahweh of hosts, is his name.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
15Vanity, they are, the handiwork of mockeries,—In the time of their visitation, shall they perish.
17Fold up, from the ground thy travelling carpet,—O inhabitress of the fortress;
Cross References
Exodus 34:9and said—If, I pray thee, I have found favour in thine eyes, O My Lord, I pray thee let My Lord go on in our midst,—although a stiff-necked people, it is, so wilt thou pardon our iniquity and our sin and take us as thine own.
Psalms 16:5Yahweh, is mine allotted portion and my cup, Thou, art maintaining my lot.
Psalms 73:26Failed have my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart—and my portion, is God unto times age-abiding.
Psalms 119:57[HETH.] My portion, is Yahweh, I have promised that I would keep thy words.
Psalms 142:5I have made outcry unto thee, O Yahweh,—I have said, Thou, art my refuge, my portion, in the land of the living.
Isaiah 19:25Whom Yahweh of hosts hath blessed saying,—Blessed, be My people—the Egyptians, And the work of my hands—the Assyrians, And mine own inheritance—Israel.
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 →