King James Version
Jeremiah 51:15 in the King James Version says “He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by h...” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 51 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.”
Jeremiah 51:15 · KJV
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee. by himself: Heb. by his soul lift up: Heb. utter
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.
When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. multitude: or, noise
Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. is brutish: or, is more brutish than to know
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“by his power”
H3581vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce)
“he hath established”
H3559properly, to be erect (i.e., stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix,
“the world”
H8398the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited); by extension, the globe; by implication, its inhabitants; specifically, a particular land, as babylonia,
“by his understanding”
H8394intelligence; by implication, an argument; by extension, caprice
“and hath stretched out”
H5186to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
“the heaven”
H8064the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r
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