Jeremiah 10:16 · KJV
“The portion of Jacob {is} not like them: for he {is} the former of all {things}; and Israel {is} the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts {is} his name.”
— Jeremiah 10:16
They {are} vanity, {and} the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress. {inhabitant: Heb. inhabitress}
Jeremiah 10 — Context
Every man is brutish in {his} knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image {is} falsehood, and {there is} no breath in them. {brutish in his knowledge: or, more brutish than to know}
15They {are} vanity, {and} the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
16The portion of Jacob {is} not like them: for he {is} the former of all {things}; and Israel {is} the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts {is} his name.
17Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress. {inhabitant: Heb. inhabitress}
18For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find {it so}.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:9
For the LORD'S portion {is} his people; Jacob {is} the lot of his inheritance. {lot: Heb. cord}
Jeremiah 32:18
Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, {is} his name,
Jeremiah 31:35
Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, {and} the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts {is} his name:
Psalms 74:2
Remember thy congregation, {which} thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, {which} thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. {rod: or, tribe}
Jeremiah 10:12
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.
Psalms 119:57
CHETH. {Thou art} my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.
Jeremiah 51:19
The portion of Jacob {is} not like them; for he {is} the former of all things: and {Israel is} the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts {is} his name.
Psalms 135:4
For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, {and} Israel for his peculiar treasure.