Jeremiah 10:7
Who would not revere thee, O King of nations? For, thee, doth it beseem; Forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations And throughout all their royal estate, None, there is like unto thee.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
6None, there is, like unto thee, O Yahweh,—Great, art, thou, And, great, is thy Name, for might.
8But at once, do they become brutish and stupid,—An example of utmost vanity, is, a tree!
Cross References
Joshua 4:24that all the peoples of the earth might know the hand of Yahweh, that, firm, it is; that they might revere Yahweh your God, all the days.
1 Chronicles 16:25For great is Yahweh, and worthy to be mightily praised, and to be revered is he above all gods;
Psalms 22:28For, to Yahweh, belongeth the kingdom, And One to Rule over the nations.
Psalms 72:11Yea let all kings, bow down unto him, Let, all nations, serve him;
Psalms 86:8There is none like unto thee, among the gods, O My Lord, And nothing like thy works.
Psalms 89:6For whom, in the skies, can one compare unto Yahweh? [Or] can one liken unto Yahweh, among the sons of the mighty?
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 →