Jeremiah 51:15
New International Version
“He made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

New Living Translation
The LORD made the earth by his power, and he preserves it by his wisdom. With his own understanding he stretched out the heavens.

English Standard Version
“It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

Berean Standard Bible
The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
He has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His wisdom, And stretched out the heaven by His understanding.

New American Standard Bible
It is He who made the earth by His power, Who established the world by His wisdom, And by His understanding He stretched out the heavens.

NASB 1995
It is He who made the earth by His power, Who established the world by His wisdom, And by His understanding He stretched out the heavens.

NASB 1977
It is He who made the earth by His power, Who established the world by His wisdom, And by His understanding He stretched out the heavens.

Legacy Standard Bible
It is He who made the earth by His power, Who established the world by His wisdom, And by His understanding He stretched out the heavens.

Amplified Bible
He made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom And stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

Christian Standard Bible
He made the earth by his power, established the world by his wisdom, and spread out the heavens by his understanding.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He made the earth by His power, established the world by His wisdom, and spread out the heavens by His understanding.

American Standard Version
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
LORD JEHOVAH made the Earth by his power, and he has set the world in order in his wisdom, and in his understanding he has stretched out the Heavens

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The Lord made the earth by his power, preparing the world by his wisdom, by his understanding he stretched out the heaven.

Contemporary English Version
God used his wisdom and power to create the earth and spread out the heavens.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that made the earth by his power, that hath prepared the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

English Revised Version
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD made the earth by his power. He set up the world by his wisdom. He stretched out heaven by his understanding.

Good News Translation
The LORD made the earth by his power; by his wisdom he created the world and stretched out the heavens.

International Standard Version
He made the earth by his power. He established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he spread out the heavens.

JPS Tanakh 1917
He that hath made the earth by His power, That hath established the world by His wisdom, And hath stretched out the heavens by His discernment;

Literal Standard Version
Making [the] earth by His power, | Establishing [the] world by His wisdom, | Who by His understanding stretched out the heavens,

Majority Standard Bible
The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

New American Bible
He made the earth by his power, established the world by wisdom, and by his skill stretched out the heavens.

NET Bible
He is the one who by his power made the earth. He is the one who by his wisdom fixed the world in place, by his understanding he spread out the heavens.

New Revised Standard Version
It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

New Heart English Bible
He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
“He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

Young's Literal Translation
The maker of earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who by His understanding stretched out the heavens,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
A Song of Praise
15The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding. 16When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.…

Cross References
Acts 14:15
"Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.

Romans 1:20
For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Job 9:8
He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

Psalm 104:24
How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

Psalm 136:5
By His insight He made the heavens. His loving devotion endures forever.

Psalm 146:5
Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,


Treasury of Scripture

He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

hath made

Jeremiah 10:12-16
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…

Jeremiah 32:17
Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:

Genesis 1:1-6
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth…

by his wisdom

Psalm 104:24
O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

Psalm 136:5
To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Proverbs 3:19
The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

and hath

Job 9:8
Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

Psalm 104:2
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

Isaiah 40:22
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

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Jeremiah 51
1. The severe judgment of God against Babylon, in revenge of Israel
59. Jeremiah delivers the book of this prophecy to Seraiah, to be cast into Euphrates,
64. in token of the perpetual sinking of Babylon














(15-19) He hath made the earth by his power . . .--The five verses are a reproduction of Jeremiah 10:12-16, fitted in here to enhance the majesty of Him Who decrees the destruction of Babylon, and appoints Israel to be the instrument of that destruction. The word "Israel," as the italics show, is wanting in the Hebrew, and we have a sufficient sense without it. "He is the former of all things, and of the rod (i.e., the tribe) of his inheritance." The English version follows the Vulgate and the Targum in treating the omission as an error of transcription. (See Notes on Jeremiah 10:12-16.)

Verses 15-19. - Probably interpolated from Jeremiah 10:12-16 (the only verbal difference is in ver. 19, where "Israel" is left out before "the rod of his inheritance"). But may not Jeremiah have quoted himself? Conceivably, yes; but he would surely not have quoted such a passage here, where it spoils the context. For granting that a point of contact with ver. 14 may be found for vers. 15, 16 (Jehovah who has sworn has also the power to accomplish), yet the passage on the idols stands quite by itself, and distracts the attention of the reader.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He made
עֹשֵׂ֥ה (‘ō·śêh)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6213: To do, make

the earth
אֶ֙רֶץ֙ (’e·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

by His power;
בְּכֹח֔וֹ (bə·ḵō·ḥōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3581: A small reptile (of unknown species)

He established
מֵכִ֥ין (mê·ḵîn)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3559: To be erect

the world
תֵּבֵ֖ל (tê·ḇêl)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8398: The earth, the globe, its inhabitants, a particular land

by His wisdom
בְּחָכְמָת֑וֹ (bə·ḥā·ḵə·mā·ṯōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2451: Wisdom

and stretched out
נָטָ֥ה (nā·ṭāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5186: To stretch out, spread out, extend, incline, bend

the heavens
שָׁמָֽיִם׃ (šā·mā·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 8064: Heaven, sky

by His understanding.
וּבִתְבוּנָת֖וֹ (ū·ḇiṯ·ḇū·nā·ṯōw)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 8394: Intelligence, an argument, caprice


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