lesserot - Jeremiah:10:1-16

lesserot@Jeremiah:10:1 @ Hear ye the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning you, O house of Israel:

lesserot@Jeremiah:10:2 @ Thus hath said the Lord, Do not habituate yourselves on the way of the nations, and at the signs of the heavens be ye not dismayed; although the nations should be dismayed at them.

lesserot@Jeremiah:10:3 @ For the statutes of these people concern what is vanity; for it is but a tree which a man hath cut out of a forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

lesserot@Jeremiah:10:4 @ With silver and with gold do they ornament it; with nails and with hammers do they fasten it, that it move not from its place.

lesserot@Jeremiah:10:5 @ As a wroughtout palmlike column are they, and cannot speak; they must needs be borne, because they cannot step along. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do any harm, so also to do any good is not in them.

lesserot@Jeremiah:10:6 @ Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord: thou art great, and great is thy name in might.

lesserot@Jeremiah:10:7 @ Who would not fear thee, O King of the nations? for to thee doth it appertain; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.

lesserot@Jeremiah:10:8 @ But at once shall they be shown to be brutish and foolish: it is a doctrine of vanities, it concerneth but wood.

lesserot@Jeremiah:10:9 @ The beaten out silver is brought from Tharshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the goldsmith: blue and purple is their clothing; the work of skilful men are they all.

lesserot@Jeremiah:10:10 @ But the Lord God is the truth, he is the living God, and the everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall quake, and nations cannot endure his indignation.

lesserot@Jeremiah:10:11 @ Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, shall perish away from the earth, and from under these heavens.

lesserot@Jeremiah:10:12 @ He made the earth by his power, he established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out the heavens.

lesserot@Jeremiah:10:13 @ At the sound when he giveth a multitude of waters in the heavens, and causeth clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; when he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures:

lesserot@Jeremiah:10:14 @ Then standeth every man as brutish without knowledge; ashamed is every goldsmith because of the graven image; for falsehood is his molten work, and there is no breath therein.

lesserot@Jeremiah:10:15 @ They are vanity, the work of deception; in the time of their punishment shall they vanish.

lesserot@Jeremiah:10:16 @ Not like these is the portion of Jacob; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: The Lord of hosts is his name.