Bible, King James Version
Jeremiah
Jer.10
[1] Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O
house of Israel:
[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.
[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 axe.
[4] They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it
with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
[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.
[6] Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD;
thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
[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.
[8] But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock
is a doctrine of vanities.
[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] 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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[15] They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time
of their visitation they shall perish.
[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.
[17] Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of
the fortress.
[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.
[19] Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I
said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[24] O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine
anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
[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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