What Does Jeremiah 10:10 Mean in the King James?
But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The LORD is both the firm reality and the living presence whose anger no nation can withstand.
THE MEANING
The LORD is the true and living God, king across the ages. His anger shakes the earth, and nations cannot hold their place before his indignation.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that a nation’s power can make it immune to the judgment of the living God.
THE ROOT
אֱמֶת
ʾemet
GROWS FROM
א־מ־ן
ʾ-m-n
To be firm, steady, or reliable.
Here, “true” carries the sense of what is firm and dependable, not only a claim that passes a fact check. Beside “living,” it describes a God who is both present and reliable.
ALSO GROWS
amen: Firm; truly; so be it.
אָמֵן
The response rests on what is dependable, not merely on words of agreement.
emunah: Trust; firmness; faithfulness.
אֱמוּנָה
Trust leans its full weight on the firmness this word for “true” names.
חַי
chay
GROWS FROM
ח־י־ה
ḥ-y-h
To live or be alive.
“living” in this verse is chay. The root holds “alive” and “life” together. Here, God’s life is visible in the force of his presence: the earth shakes and nations cannot withstand him.
ALSO GROWS
chayah: To live; remain alive.
חָיָה
The verb gives the root’s basic sense of living as an active condition.
chayyim: Life; living.
חַיִּים
The noun names the life that the description “living God” holds together with God’s presence.
עוֹלָם
ʿolam
GROWS FROM
ע־ל־ם
ʿ-l-m
To be hidden or beyond sight; עוֹלָם (ʿolam) names an age or span reaching beyond what is immediately seen.
The word translated “everlasting” is עוֹלָם (ʿolam), an age or ages. Its connection with concealment suggests a horizon beyond sight; calling the LORD king of עוֹלָם (ʿolam) places his rule across the ages.
ALSO GROWS
ʿalam: To hide or conceal.
עָלַם
It shares the root’s sense of what is out of view.
neʿelam: Hidden; out of sight.
נֶעְלָם
This branch makes the root’s image of what lies beyond immediate sight explicit.
THE PATTERN
The living God’s rule reaches beyond private belief: the earth trembles before him, and no nation can secure itself against his anger.
The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:THE THREAD
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.Jeremiah’s “everlasting king” is מֶלֶךְ עוֹלָם (melekh ʿolam), king across the age or ages. Psalm 90:2 repeats עוֹלָם (ʿolam) at both ends, placing God’s rule before the earth’s formation and across the ages.
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