22 Aram “The gods who did not make … earth will disappear …” The sentence is broken up in the translation to avoid a long, complex English sentence in conformity with contemporary English style.
23 This verse is in Aramaic. It is the only Aramaic sentence in Jeremiah. Scholars debate the appropriateness of this verse to this context. Many see it as a gloss added by a postexilic scribe which was later incorporated into the text. Both R. E. Clendenen (“Discourse Strategies in Jeremiah 10,” 106 [1987]: ) and W. L. Holladay (Jeremiah [Hermeneia], 1:, ) have given detailed arguments that the passage is not only original but the climax and center of the contrast between the Lord and idols in vv. 2–16. Holladay shows that the passage is a very carefully constructed chiasm (see accompanying study note) which argues that “these” at the end is the subject of the verb “will disappear” not the attributive adjective modifying heaven. He also makes a very good case that the verse is poetry and not prose as it is rendered in the majority of modern English versions. This passage is carefully structured and placed to contrast the Lord who is living and eternal (v. 10) and made the heavens and earth (v. 12) with the idols who did not and will disappear. It also has a very careful concentric structure in the original text where “the gods” is balanced by “these,” “heavens” is balance by “from under the heavens,” “the earth” is balanced by “from the earth,” and “did not make” is balanced and contrasted in the very center by “will disappear.” The structure is further reinforced by the sound play/wordplay between “did not make” (Aram לָא עֲבַדוּ [la’ ’avadu]) and “will disappear” (Aram יֵאבַדוּ [ye’vadu]). This is the rhetorical climax of Jeremiah’s sarcastic attack on the folly of idolatry.
24 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.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

But the Lord is the true God;

he is the living God and the everlasting King.

At his wrath the earth quakes,

and the nations cannot endure his indignation.

Thus shall you say to them: “The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”

It is he who made the earth by his power,

who established the world by his wisdom,

and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

But the Lord is the true God;

he is the living God, the eternal King.

When he is angry, the earth trembles;

the nations cannot endure his wrath.

“Tell them this: ‘These gods, who did not make the heavens and the earth, will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.’ ”

But God made the earth by his power;

he founded the world by his wisdom

and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

But the Lord is the true God;

he is the living God and eternal King.

The earth quakes at his wrath,

and the nations cannot endure his fury.

You are to say this to them: “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”

He made the earth by his power,

established the world by his wisdom,

and spread out the heavens by his understanding.

NLTNew Living Translation

But the Lord is the only true God.

He is the living God and the everlasting King!

The whole earth trembles at his anger.

The nations cannot stand up to his wrath.

Say this to those who worship other gods: “Your so-called gods, who did not make the heavens and earth, will vanish from the earth and from under the heavens.”

But the Lord made the earth by his power,

and he preserves it by his wisdom.

With his own understanding

he stretched out the heavens.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But Yahweh is the true God,

he is the living God,

and an everlasting king.

Because of his wrath the earth quakes,

and the nations cannot endure his anger.

“Thus you shall say to them,

‘Gods who did not make the heavens and the earth

will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.

He is the maker of the earth by his power,

who created the world by his wisdom,

and by his understanding he stretched out heaven.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.

Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.

He hath made the earth by his power,

He hath established the world by his wisdom,

And hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

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