JER-10:1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O

house of Israel:

JER-10:2 Thus saith 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.

JER-10:3 For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one]

cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the

workman, with the ax.

JER-10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it

with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

JER-10:5 They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not:

they must needs 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.

JER-10:6 Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto thee, O LORD;

thou [art] great, and thy name [is] great in might.

JER-10:7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee

doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise [men] of the

nations, and in all their kingdoms, [there is] none like unto

thee.

JER-10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock

[is] a doctrine of vanities.

JER-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].

JER-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.

JER-10:11 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.

JER-10:12 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.

JER-10:13 When he uttereth his voice, [there is] a multitude of

waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from

the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and

bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

JER-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.

JER-10:15 They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the

time of their visitation they shall perish.

JER-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.

JER-10:17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of

the fortress.

JER-10:18 For thus saith 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].

JER-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.

JER-10:20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken:

my children are gone forth of me, and they [are] not: [there is]

none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my

curtains.

JER-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.

JER-10:22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great

commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah

desolate, [and] a den of dragons.

JER-10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in himself:

 [it is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

JER-10:24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine

anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

JER-10:25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not,

and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have

eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have

made his habitation desolate. 

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