Jeremiah 10:12

The Lord is the one who ¹  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.

Ge 1:1,6-9; Job 9:8; Job 26:7; Job 38:4-7; Ps 24:2; Ps 33:6; Ps 78:69; Ps 93:1; Ps 104:2,24; Ps 119:90; Ps 136:5,6; Ps 146:5,6; Ps 148:4,5; Pr 3:19; Pr 30:4; Isa 40:22; Isa 42:5; Isa 44:24; Isa 45:12; Isa 45:18; Isa 48:13; Isa 49:8; Jer 32:17; Jer 51:15-19; Zec 12:1; Joh 1:3; Col 1:16

¹ tn The words “The Lord is” are not in the text. They are implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation here because of the possible confusion of who the subject is due to the parenthetical address to the people of Israel in v. 11. The first two verbs are participles and should not merely be translated as the narrative past. They are predicate nominatives of an implied copula intending to contrast the Lord as the one who made the earth with the idols which did not.