Jeremiah 10:6
in Jeremiah 10There is none like You, O LORD. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.
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ASV
There is none like unto thee, O Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
KJV
Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
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This verse in Jeremiah 10
Commentary
9 notes on this verseMen's name is often beyond their might; they are thought to be greater than they are; but God's name is great, and no greater than he really is. And therefore who would not fear thee, O King of nations? Who would not choose to worship such a God as this, that can do every thing, rather than such dead idols as the heathen worship, that can do nothing?
This site's exposition
Your name is mighty in power
on Jeremiah 10:6-10
Against the craftsman's product stands the confession of verse 6, “You are great, and Your name is mighty in power”, a doxology inside the argument. Verse 10 answers with the title no idol can claim, “the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King”.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers3 voices
Therefore we ought to believe that God is good, eternal, perfect, almighty and true, such as we find him in the Law and the Prophets and the rest of the Holy Scriptures, for otherwise there is no God. For he who is God must be good, seeing that fullness of goodness is of the nature of God. God, who made time, cannot be in time. Again, God cannot be imperfect, for a lesser being is plainly imperfect, seeing that it lacks somewhat whereby it could be made equal to a greater. This, then, is the teaching of our faith—that God is not evil, that with God nothing is impossible, that God does not exist in time, that God is beneath no being. If I am in error, let my adversaries prove it.
(Verse 6.) There is none like you, O Lord: you are great, and your name is great in power. These are not found in the Septuagint, but were added in many places from Theodotion's Edition, and although they seem clear according to the letter, they present a great difficulty according to allegory. For there is no one like the true God, of those gods who are fabricated by heretical art.
A commentator
Ambrose of MilanExposition of the Christian Faith 2.Intro.3 · Written before 397.
proposed
These tokens so declare the nature of the Son, that by them you may know both that the Father is eternal, and that the Son is not diverse from Him; for the source of generation is He Who is, and as begotten of the Eternal, He is God; coming forth from the Father, He is the Son; from God, He is the Word; He is the radiance of the Father's glory, the expression of His substance, the counterpart of God, the image of His majesty; the Bounty of Him Who is bountiful, the Wisdom of Him Who is wise, the Power of the Mighty One, the Truth of Him Who is true, the Life of the Living One.
The Medieval Church1 voice
A commentator
BonaventureCollationes de Septem Donis, Collation 2 · Written in the 13th century.
proposed
The fear of God arises in us from the consideration of divine power. Whence in Jeremiah: "There is none like unto thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is great in might: who would not fear thee, O king of nations?" He sets …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord,....
2 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
What is the glory of the greatest prince or potentate, compared with the glory of him whose kingdom rules over all?
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
For as much as - Or, “No one is like unto thee, O Jehovah.” In Jer 10:6-11, the prophet contrasts God’s greatness with the impotence of idols.
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מֵאֵ֥ין | meein | from there not | H369 → | 789 times |
| כָּמ֖וֹךָ | kamokha | [is] like you | H3644 → | 143 times |
| יְהוָ֑ה | yahweh | O Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| גָּד֥וֹל | gadol | [are] great | H1419 → | 526 times |
| אַתָּ֛ה | ʾatah | you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| וְגָד֥וֹל | vegadol | and [is] great | H1419 → | 526 times |
| שִׁמְךָ֖ | shimkha | name your | H8034 → | 864 times |
| בִּגְבוּרָֽה׃ | bigvurah | in strength | H1369 → | 61 times |
מֵאֵ֥יןfrom there not
meeinH369 →789 times
כָּמ֖וֹךָ[is] like you
kamokhaH3644 →143 times
יְהוָ֑הO Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
גָּד֥וֹל[are] great
gadolH1419 →526 times
אַתָּ֛הyou
ʾatahH859 →1094 times
וְגָד֥וֹלand [is] great
vegadolH1419 →526 times
שִׁמְךָ֖name your
shimkhaH8034 →864 times
בִּגְבוּרָֽה׃in strength
bigvurahH1369 →61 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Exodus 15:11Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?
it leads to
- 1 Kings 8:23
and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with…
- Psalms 89:5–8
The heavens praise Your wonders, O LORD— Your faithfulness as well— in the assembly of the holy ones.
- 1 Samuel 2:2
There is no one holy like the LORD. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God.
- 2 Samuel 7:22
How great You are, O Lord GOD! For there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.
- Revelation 4:8
And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty,…
- 1 Kings 8:23
Through
Psalms 96:4For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.
it leads to
- Psalms 145:3
Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised; His greatness is unsearchable.
- Psalms 145:3
Through
Psalms 48:1Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.
it leads to
- Micah 4:1
In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to…
- Zechariah 8:3
This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of Hosts will be…
- Micah 4:1
Where this verse is studied
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About Jeremiah
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Ambrose of Milan, Exposition of the Christian Faith 1.2.14; Ambrose of Milan, Exposition of the Christian Faith 2.Intro.3; Bonaventure, Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 2; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.