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Jeremiah 10
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1Hear you⌃ the word of the Lord, which he has spoken to you, O house of Israel.
1Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2Thus says the Lord, Learn you⌃ not 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.
2Thus 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.
3For 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.
3For 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 are] beautified with silver and gold, they fix them with hammers and nails;
4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5they will set them up that they may not move; it is wrought silver, they will not walk, it is forged silver They must certainly be borne, for they can’t ride [of themselves]. Fear them not ; for they can’t do any evil, and there is no good in them .
5They 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.
11Thus shall you⌃ say to them, Let the gods which have not made heaven and earthperish from off the earth, and from under this sky.
11Thus 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.
12It 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,
12He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
13and 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.
13When 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.
14Every man 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.
14Every 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.
15They are vain works, wrought in mockery; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
15They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
16Such is not the portion of Jacob; for he that formed all things, he is his inheritance; the Lord is his name.
16The 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.
17He has gathered your substance from without the lodged in choice [vessels].
17Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
18For thus says the Lord, Behold, I [will] overthrow the inhabitants of this land with affliction, that your plague may be revealed.
18For 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.
19Alas for your ruin! your plague is grievous: and I said, Surely this is your wound, and it has overtaken you.
19Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
20Your tabernacle is in a ruinous state, it has perished; and all your 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.
20My 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.
21For the shepherds have become foolish, and have not sought the Lord; therefore the whole pasture has failed, and [the sheep] have been scattered.
21For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the Lord: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
22Behold, 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.
22Behold, 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.
23I know, O Lord, that man's way is not his own; neither shall a man go, and direct his going.
23O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
24Chasten us, O Lord, but with judgment; and not in wrath, lest you make us few.
24O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
25Pour out your wrath upon the nations that have not known you, and upon the families that have not called upon your name: for they have devoured Jacob, and consumed him, and have made his pasture desolate.
25Pour 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.