rsv Jeremiah:10:4-10
rsv@Jeremiah:10:4 @ Men deck it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so that it cannot move.
rsv@Jeremiah:10:5 @ Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good."
rsv@Jeremiah:10:6 @ There is none like thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
rsv@Jeremiah:10:7 @ Who would not fear thee, O King of the nations? For this is thy due; for among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like thee.
rsv@Jeremiah:10:8 @ They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!
rsv@Jeremiah:10:9 @ Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; their clothing is violet and purple; they are all the work of skilled men.
rsv@Jeremiah:10:10 @ But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.