Jeremiah:10

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* Hear the word that Jehovah speaketh unto you , house of Israel . * Thus saith Jehovah : Learn not the way of the nations , and be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens ; for the nations are dismayed at them . * For the statutes of the peoples are vanity ; for [it is ] a tree cut out of the forest , worked with a chisel by the hands of the artizan ; * they deck it with silver and with gold ; they fasten it with nails and with hammers , that it move not . * They are as a palm-column of turned work , and they speak not ; they are carried , for they cannot go . Be not afraid of them ; for they cannot do evil , neither also is it in them to do good . * There is none like unto thee , Jehovah ; thou art great , and thy name is great in might . * Who would not fear thee , O King of nations ? For to thee doth it appertain ; for among all the wise men of the nations , and in all their kingdoms , there is none like unto thee . * But they are one and all senseless and foolish ; the teaching of vanities is a stock . * Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish , and gold from Uphaz , the work of the artizan and of the hands of the founder ; blue and purple is their clothing : they are all the work of skilful [men ]. * But Jehovah Elohim is truth ; he is the living God , and the King of eternity . At his wrath the earth trembleth , and the nations cannot abide his indignation . * Thus shall ye say unto them : The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth , these shall perish from the earth , and from under the heavens . * He hath made the earth by his power , he hath established the world by his wisdom , and hath stretched out the heavens by his understanding . * When he uttereth his voice , there is a tumult of waters in the heavens , and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the end of the earth ; he maketh lightnings for the rain , and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries . * Every man is become brutish , bereft of knowledge ; every founder is put to shame by the graven image , for his molten image is falsehood , and there is no breath in them . * They are vanity , a work of delusion : in the time of their visitation they shall perish . * The portion of Jacob is not like them ; for it is he that hath formed all [things ], and Israel is the rod of his inheritance : Jehovah of hosts is his name . * Gather up thy baggage out of the land , O inhabitress of the fortress . * For thus saith Jehovah : Behold , I will this time sling out the inhabitants of the land , and will distress them , that they may be found . * Woe is me , for my wound ! My stroke is hard to heal , and I had said , Yea , this is [my ] grief , and I will bear it . * My tent is despoiled , and all my cords are broken ; my children are gone forth from me , and they are not ; there is none to stretch forth my tent any more , and to set up my curtains . * For the shepherds are become brutish , and have not sought Jehovah ; therefore have they not acted wisely , and all their flock is scattered . * The voice of a rumour ! Behold , it cometh , and a great commotion out of the north country , to make the cities of Judah a desolation , a dwelling-place of jackals . * I know , Jehovah , that the way of man is not his own ; it is not in a man that walketh to direct his steps . * Jehovah , correct me , but with judgment ; not in thine anger , lest thou bring me to nothing . * Pour out thy fury upon the nations that know thee not , and upon the families that call not on thy name ; for they have eaten up Jacob , yea , they have eaten him up and consumed him , and have laid waste his dwelling-place .

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