Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
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Gill's Exposition
Thus saith the Lord, the Maker thereof,.... The Syriac version is, "that made thee"; the prophet. The Septuagint and Arabic versions are, "the Maker of the earth"; see Jer 32:17. Kimchi interprets it…
Barnes' Notes
Or, Thus saith Yahweh the doer of it, Yahweh who formeth it, that He may establish it, Yahweh is His name. The word “it” means whatsoever Yahweh wills.
Observe here, I. The date of this comfortable prophecy which God entrusted Jeremiah with. It is not exact in the time, only that it was after that in the foregoing chapter, when things were still…
These vv. bear a close affinity to several passages in 2 Isaiah (e.g. Isa 45:18; Isa 48:6), and are probably an insertion by a later hand. For the indefinite "that doeth it," etc., which in the Hebrew…
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