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bes@Jeremiah:10:1 @ Hear ye the word of the Lord, which he has spoken to you, O house of Israel.

bes@Jeremiah:10:2 @ Thus saith the Lord, Learn ye not (note:)Gr. according to the ways(:note) the ways of the heathen, and be not alarmed at the signs of the sky; for they are alarmed at them, falling on their faces.

bes@Jeremiah:10:3 @ For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.

bes@Jeremiah:10:4 @ They are beautified with silver and gold, they fix them with hammers and nails;

bes@Jeremiah:10:5 @ they will set them up (note:)Lit. and they shall not be moved(:note) that they may not move; it is wrought silver, they will not walk, it is forged silver(10:5) They must certainly be borne, for they Gr. will not mount cannot ride of themselves. Fear them not; for they cannot do any evil, and there is no good in them.

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bes@Jeremiah:10:9 @ brought from Tharsis, gold will come from Mophaz, and the work of goldsmiths: they are all the works of craftsmen, they will clothe themselves with blue and scarlet.

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bes@Jeremiah:10:11 @ Thus shall ye say to them, Let the gods which have not made heaven and earth perish from off the earth, and from under this sky.

bes@Jeremiah:10:12 @ It is the Lord that made the earth by his strength, who set up the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the sky,

bes@Jeremiah:10:13 @ and set abundance of waters in the sky, and brought up clouds from the ends of the earth; he made lightnings for the rain, and brought forth light out of his treasures.

bes@Jeremiah:10:14 @ Every man (note:)Or, too foolish to know(:note) is deprived of knowledge, every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images; for he has cast false gods, there is no breath in them.

bes@Jeremiah:10:15 @ They are vain works, (note:)Or, worthy of(:note) wrought in mockery; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

bes@Jeremiah:10:16 @ Such is not the portion of Jacob; for he that formed all things, he is (note:)sc. Jacob’s(:note) his inheritance; the Lord is his name.

bes@Jeremiah:10:17 @ He has gathered thy substance from without the lodged in choice vessels.

bes@Jeremiah:10:18 @ For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will overthrow the inhabitants of this land with affliction, that thy plague may be discovered.

bes@Jeremiah:10:19 @ Alas for thy ruin! thy plague is grievous: and I said, Surely this is thy wound, and it has overtaken thee.

bes@Jeremiah:10:20 @ Thy tabernacle is in a ruinous state, it has perished; and all thy curtains have been torn asunder: my children and my cattle are no more: there is no more any place for my tabernacle, nor place for my curtains.

bes@Jeremiah:10:21 @ For the shepherds have become foolish, and have not sought the Lord; therefore the whole pasture has failed, and the sheep have been scattered.

bes@Jeremiah:10:22 @ Behold, there comes a sound of a noise, and a great earthquake from the land of the north, to make the cities of Juda a desolation, and a resting-place for ostriches.

bes@Jeremiah:10:23 @ I know, O Lord, that man’s way is not his own; neither shall a man go, and direct his going.

bes@Jeremiah:10:24 @ Chasten us, O Lord, but with judgement; and not in wrath, lest thou make us few.

bes@Jeremiah:10:25 @ Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the families that have not called upon thy name: for they have devoured Jacob, and consumed him, and have made his pasture desolate.

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