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Jeremiah 10:10

But the Lord, Jehovah, the covenant God, is the true God, His whole essence being truth over against the nothingness of the idols, and an everlasting King, Ruler of the universe forever; at His wrath the earth shall tremble, shrinking back in terror before His living wrath, and the nations shall not be able to abide His indignation, to endure even the smallest expression of His anger.

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See also Jeremiah 10:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 10:10. _BUT THE LORD_] The original word should be preserved, however we agree to pronounce it: יהוה _Yehovah is the true God_. He is without beginning, and without end. This is _true_...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 10 The Vanity of Idols _ 1. Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven (Jeremiah 10:1) _ 2. The contrast: The vanity of idols and the Lord, the King of Nations (Jeremiah 10:6) 3. The afflictio...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY, This passage (like Jeremiah 9:23) interrupts the connexion of Jeremiah 9:22 and Jeremiah 10:17; its denunciation of the idols of the heathen as utterly futile for good or evil r...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LIVING GOD. Both words in plural, referring to the triune God. EVERLASTING KING. king of the ages, or, of eternity....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See summary at commencement of the ch....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jeremiah 10:1-16. The folly of idolatry It is now generally recognised that this passage is a later insertion, for (_a_) it breaks the connexion between Jeremiah 9:1-22 and Jeremiah 10:17 ff.; while...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    LXX omit, but there is more to be said for MT. here than in the cases above. As Jeremiah 10:11 is clearly a gloss, Jeremiah 10:12 would be very abrupt without an introduction of this kind. _the true...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. The Incomparable God of Israel Jeremiah 10:6-16 TRANSLATION (6) There is none like You O LORD; great are You and great is Your name in power. (7) Who would not fear You, O King of the nations; for...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. TRUE GOD - literally,...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-16. The folly of idolatry. This section of the prophecy is of doubtful authorship. For (_a_) it introduces a break in the sense; (_b_) there is less smoothness between the parts than we generally fi...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE LORD IS THE TRUE GOD. — Literally, _Jehovah is the God that is Truth._ The thought expressed is that for which St. John, as indeed the LXX. does here, uses the word _alçthinos_ (John 17:3; 1 John...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַֽ יהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהִים֙ אֱמֶ֔ת הֽוּא ־אֱלֹהִ֥ים...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER VI THE IDOLS OF THE HEATHEN AND THE GOD OF ISRAEL Jeremiah 10:1 THIS fine piece is altogether isolated from the surrounding context, which it interrupts in a very surprising manner. Neither...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY Jeremiah 10:1-10; Jeremiah 19:1-15; Jeremiah 20:1-18; Jeremiah 21:1-14; Jeremiah 22:1-30; Jeremiah 23:1-40; Jeremiah 24:1-10; Jeremiah 25:1-38...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here begins the third movement in the commissioning of the prophet. In it the sin of idolatry is first dealt with. The prophet revealed the unutterable folly of idolatry in a powerful contrast between...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Wrath. God is the true cause of all that terrifies mankind._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This is most striking sermon, and very highly finished, in which the Prophet, in the Lord's name, asserts his divine nature and sovereignty: and then displays the folly of idols. The words are so plai...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet here exults and triumphs in the name of his God, as though he had overcome and put to flight the erroneous notions of the heathens: for he had spoken, as it appears, contemptuously of thei...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 10 the idols and the vanities of the nations are put in contrast with Jehovah. In Verses 19-25 (Jeremiah 10:19-25) we have the affliction of the prophet, speaking of the desolation of Jerus...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT THE LORD IS THE TRUE GOD,.... In opposition to all nominal and fictitious deities, which are not by nature God, only by name, and in the foolish imagination of the people: or, "the Lord God is tru...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But the LORD [is] the true God, he [is] the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. Ver. 10. _But the Lo...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _But the Lord_ Hebrew, _Jehovah, is the true God_ A very different being from these idols. _He is the living God_ Images are dead and senseless things; but Jehovah is life itself, and the author and f...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TRUE GOD: _ Heb._ God of truth EVERLASTING KING: _ Heb._ King of eternity...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-16 The prophet shows the glory of Israel's God, and exposes the folly of idolaters. Charms and other attempts to obtain supernatural help, or to pry into futurity, are copied from the wicked custom...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE LORD IS THE TRUE GOD: q. d. All these are but false gods: Jehovah is the alone true God; they are but lies, and the teachers of lies. God is truth itself, and that both in regard of his _essence_,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 10:10 LORD H3068 true H571 God H430 living H2416 God H430 everlasting H5769 King H4428 wrath H7110 earth

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL ARE NOT TO LEARN THE WAY OF THE NATIONS BECAUSE, WHILE YHWH IS GREAT BEYOND DESCRIBING, THEIR IDOLS ARE UTTERLY FUTILE (JEREMIAH 10:1). This passage, in a sequence of verses, compa...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 10:1. _Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, concluded. Greatness of the true God. Coming distresses in the land because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Jehovah is the one only living and tr...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 10:2. _Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven;_ at the position of revolving planets on which the augurs found predictions, and discover their ignorance. Be not dismayed at solar eclipses, at...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Section 1–16 has been declared spurious (by De Wette, Movers, and Hitzig), its authenticity disputed, a late interpolation by either the ps...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Whoever wrote the prophecy in Jeremiah 10:1 of this chapter, it was not Jeremiah; but of course, as the passage forms part of a canonical book, its claims to the character of a Scripture re...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven [or the Zodiac]; for the heathen...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 5:20; 1 Kings 18:39; 1 Samuel 17:26; 1 Samuel 17:36;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    But — All these are but false gods. Living — These are all but dead stocks and stones, Jehovah is the only living God, having life in himself, and giving life to all things else. An everlasting king —...

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