Jeremiah 10:12

Easy-to-Read Version

God is the one who used his power and made the earth. He used his wisdom and built the world. With his understanding he stretched the sky over the earth.

Parallel Translations

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

Hebrew Names Version
He has made the eretz by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

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.

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.

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 has stretched out the heavens.

New Century Version
God made the earth by his power. He used his wisdom to build the world and his understanding to stretch out the skies.

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

World 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:

Geneva Bible (1587)
He hath made the earth by his power, and established the worlde by his wisedome, and hath stretched out the heauen by his discretion.

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 has stretched out the heavens.

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

Contemporary English Version
With your wisdom and power you created the earth and spread out the heavens.

Complete Jewish Bible
God made the earth by his power, established the world by his wisdom spread out the sky by his understanding.

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

George Lamsa Translation
The LORD has made the earth by his power; he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by his intelligence.

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

Lexham English Bible
He is the maker of the earth by his power, who created the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out heaven.

Literal Translation
It is He who made the earth by His power, who established the world by His wisdom, and who stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But (as for oure God) he made the earth with his power, and with his wisdome hath he fynished the whole compasse of the worlde, with his discrecion hath he spred out the heauens,

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.

Bible in Basic English
He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.

JPS Old Testament (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 understanding;

King James Version (1611)
Hee hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisedome, and hath stretched out the heauens by his discretion.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But [as for our God] he made the earth with his power, and with his wisdome doth he order the whole compasse of the worlde, with his discretion hath he spread out the heauens.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
It is the Lord that made the earth by his strength, who set up the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the sky,

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:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He is God, that makith the erthe in his strengthe, makith redi the world in his wisdom, and stretchith forth heuenes bi his prudence.

Update Bible Version
He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he has 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 heavens by his discretion.

New English Translation
The Lord is the one who by his power made the earth. He is the one who by his wisdom established the world. And by his understanding he spread out the skies.

New King James Version
He has made the earth by His power, He has established the world by His wisdom, And has stretched out the heavens at His discretion.

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

New Life Bible
It is He Who made the earth by His power, and the world by His wisdom. By His understanding He has spread out the heavens.

New Revised Standard
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.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He that made the earth by his power, That established the world by his wisdom, - And by his understanding stretched out the heavens,

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that maketh the earth by his power, that prepareth the world by his wisdom, and stretcheth out the heavens by his knowledge.

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.

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

New American Standard Bible (1995)
It is He who made the earth by His power, Who established the world by His wisdom; And by His understanding He has stretched out the heavens.

Contextual Overview

¹ Family of Israel, listen to the Lord ! ² This is what the Lord says: "Don't live like people from other nations. Don't be afraid of special signs in the sky. The other nations are afraid of what they see in the sky. But you must not be afraid of them. ³ The customs of other people are worth nothing. Their idols are nothing but wood from the forest. Their idols are made by workers with their chisels. ⁴ They make their idols beautiful with silver and gold. They use hammers and nails to fasten their idols down so that they will not fall over. ⁵ The idols of the other nations are like a scarecrow in a cucumber field. They cannot walk. They cannot talk, and the people must carry them. So don't be afraid of their idols. They cannot hurt you. And they cannot help you either." ⁶ Lord , there is no one like you. You are great! Your name is great and powerful! ⁷ Everyone should respect you, King of all the nations. You deserve their respect. There are many wise men among the nations, but not one of them is as wise as you. ⁸ All the people of the other nations are stupid and foolish. Their teachings come from worthless wooden statues. ⁹ They use silver from the city of Tarshish and gold from the city of Uphaz and make their statues. Carpenters and metalworkers make the idols. They put blue and purple clothes on them. "Wise men" make these "gods." ¹⁰ But the Lord is the only true God. He is the only God who is alive. He is the King who rules forever. The earth shakes when he is angry. The people of the nations cannot stop his anger.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hath made: Jeremiah 32:17, Jeremiah 51:15-19, Genesis 1:1, Genesis 1:6-9, Job 38:4-7, Psalms 33:6, Psalms 136:5, Psalms 136:6, Psalms 146:5, Psalms 146:6, Psalms 148:4, Psalms 148:5, John 1:3, Colossians 1:16

established: Psalms 24:2, Psalms 78:69, Psalms 93:1, Psalms 119:90, Proverbs 3:19, Proverbs 30:4, Isaiah 45:18, Isaiah 49:8

stretched: Job 9:8, Job 26:7, Psalms 104:2, Psalms 104:24, Isaiah 40:22, Isaiah 42:5, Isaiah 44:24, Isaiah 45:12, Isaiah 48:13, Zechariah 12:1

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:1 - Thus 1 Chronicles 16:26 - the Lord 1 Chronicles 16:30 - stable 2 Chronicles 32:13 - were the gods Nehemiah 9:6 - thou hast Job 12:13 - wisdom Job 36:5 - mighty Job 36:24 - magnify Job 37:16 - perfect Psalms 19:1 - The heavens Psalms 28:5 - operation Psalms 96:5 - For Proverbs 8:27 - he prepared Proverbs 24:3 - it is Isaiah 31:2 - he also Isaiah 40:26 - who hath Isaiah 51:13 - that hath Jeremiah 10:16 - former Jeremiah 27:5 - made Jeremiah 51:16 - he uttereth John 1:10 - and the world was

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He hath made the earth by his power,.... The Targum considers these words as a continuation of the answer of the Jews to the Chaldeans, paraphrasing them thus,

"and so shall ye say unto them, `we worship him who hath made the earth by his power':''

who stands opposed to the gods that made not the heavens and the earth, that had no title to deity, nor right to worship; but the true God has both; and his making the earth out of nothing, and hanging it upon nothing, and preserving it firm and stable, are proofs of his almighty power, and so of his deity; and consequently that he ought to be worshipped, and he only.

He hath established the world by his wisdom; upon the rivers and floods; or he hath poised it in the air; or he hath disposed it in an orderly, regular, and beautiful manner, as the word u used signifies; by making it terraqueous, partly land, and partly water; by opening in it fountains and rivers; by diversifying it with hills and vales, with wood and arable land, c. all which show the wisdom as well as the power of God.

And hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion; as a canopy over the earth, as a tent to dwell in; and which is beautifully bespangled with the luminaries in it; hence it has the name of expanse, or the firmament of heaven.

u מכין "aptavit", Cocceius; "preparans", Schmidt; a כון "aptavit, disposuit", Gussetius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Discretion - Or, understanding. The three attributes ascribed to the Creator are very remarkable. The creation of the earth, the material world, is an act of “power;” the “establishing,” i. e., the ordering and arranging it as a place fit for man’s abode, is the work of his “wisdom;” while the spreading out the heavens over it like a tent is an act of “understanding,” or skill. Naturally, the consideration of these attributes has led many to see here an allusion to the Holy Trinity.