Jeremiah 10:12

The maker of the earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who, by His understanding, stretched forth the heavens,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

In Context

11Thus do ye say to them, The gods Who the heavens and earth have not made, They do perish from the earth, And from under these heavens.

13At the voice He giveth forth, A multitude of waters [is] in the heavens, And He causeth vapours to come up from the end of the earth, Lightnings for rain He hath made, And bringeth out wind from His treasures.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:6And God saith, 'Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters.'

Job 9:8Stretching out the heavens by Himself, And treading on the heights of the sea,

Job 38:4Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding.

Psalms 33:6By the word of Jehovah The heavens have been made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host.

Psalms 78:69And buildeth His sanctuary as a high place, Like the earth, He founded it to the age.

Psalms 104:2Covering himself [with] light as a garment, Stretching out the heavens as a curtain,

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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