Jeremiah 10:16
The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
15They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
17Gather up thy wares out of the land, O thou that abidest in the siege.
Cross References
Exodus 34:9And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
Psalms 16:5The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
Psalms 73:26My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
Psalms 119:57The LORD is my portion: I have said that I would observe thy words.
Psalms 142:5I cried unto thee, O LORD; I said, Thou art my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.
Isaiah 19:25for that the LORD of hosts hath blessed them, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
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 →