The Book of Jeremiah (WEB)
10: 1Hear you the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel: 10:2thus says Yahweh,
"Don't learn the way of the nations, and don't be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations
are dismayed at them. 10:3For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the
forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the ax. 10:4They deck it with silver and with
gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move. 10:5They are like a palm tree, of
turned work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid of them;
for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good. 10:6There is none like you, Yahweh; you are
great, and your name is great in might. 10:7Who should not fear you, King of the nations? for to you
does it appertain; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there
is none like you. 10:8But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a
stock. 10:9There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz,
the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they
are all the work of skillful men. 10:10But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an
everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his
indignation. 10:11Thus shall you say to them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the
earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens. 10:12He has made the earth by
his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched
out the heavens: 10:13when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he
causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and
brings forth the wind out of his treasuries. 10:14Every man is become brutish and is without
knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his engraved image; for his molten image is
falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 10:15They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of
their visitation they shall perish. 10:16The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of
all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Hosts is his name. 10:17Gather up
your wares out of the land, you who abide in the siege. 10:18For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will
sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it.
10:19Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I
must bear it. 10:20My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from
me, and they are no more: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
10:21For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh: therefore they have
not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered. 10:22The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a
great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a
dwelling-place of jackals. 10:23Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in
man who walks to direct his steps. 10:24Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest
you bring me to nothing. 10:25Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you, and on the
families that don't call on your name: for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him
and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
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