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JEREMIAH ยท Chapter 10
10:1 Hear all of you the word which the LORD speaks unto you, O house
of Israel:
10:2 Thus says the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not
dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
10:3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out
of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails
and with hammers, that it move not.
10:5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must essentially
be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot
do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
10:6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto you, O LORD; you are great,
and your name is great in might.
10:7 Who would not fear you, O King of nations? in order to you does
it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in
all their kingdoms, there is none like unto you.
10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine
of vanities.
10:9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from
Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and
purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.
10:10 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.
10:11 Thus shall all of you 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.
10:12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world
by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
10:13 When he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the
heavens, and he causes the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth;
he makes lightnings with rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasures.
10:14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded
by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no
breath in them.
10:15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their
visitation they shall perish.
10:16 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.
10:17 Gather up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
10:18 For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants
of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it
so.
10:19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly
this is a grief, and I must bear it.
10:20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children
are gone out of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my
tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
10:21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD:
therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
10:22 Behold, the noise of the bruit has come, and a great commotion
out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den
of dragons.
10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not
in man that walks to direct his steps.
10:24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in your anger, lest
you bring me to nothing.
10:25 Pour out your fury upon the heathen that know you not, and upon
the families that call not on your name: for they have eaten up Jacob,
and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
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