Jeremiah 51:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Portion

Lamentations 3:24

The former

Jeremiah 51:15

The rod

Bible References

Portion

The portion of Jacob is not like these. For he is the former of all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance. LORD of hosts is his name.

LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup. Thou maintain my lot.

My flesh and my heart fails, [but] God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

But our God is in the heavens. He has done whatever he pleased.

LORD is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him.

The former

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.

The rod

I have forsaken my house. I have cast off my heritage. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye who plunder my heritage, because ye are wanton as a heifer that treads out [the grain], and neigh as strong horses,

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be my own possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine,

For LORD's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

Blessed is the nation whose God is LORD, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

Remember thy congregation, which thou have gotten of old, which thou have redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance, [and] mount Zion, at which thou have dwelt.

For LORD has chosen Jacob to himself, Israel for his own possession.

But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for an acquired possession, so that ye might broadly proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.