Jeremiah 10:9

Silver spread into plates, from Tarshish is brought, And gold, from Uphaz, Work for the craftsman and for the hands of the smith,—Blue and purple, is their clothing, Work for the skilled, are they all.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.

In Context

8But at once, do they become brutish and stupid,—An example of utmost vanity, is, a tree!

10But, Yahweh, is God in truth, He, is a God that, liveth, And a King of times age-abiding,—At his anger, quaketh the earth, And nations cannot endure his wrath.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 9:21For, the ships of the king, used to go to Tarshish, with the servants of Huram,—once in three years, came in the ships of Tarshish, bearing gold and silver, ivory and apes, and peacocks.

Isaiah 40:19The image, hath been cast by an artificer, And a goldsmith, with gold, overlayeth it,—And, chains of silver, he worketh.

Daniel 10:5then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and lo! a man, clothed in linen,—whose loins, were girded with the bright gold of Uphaz;

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 →

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