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Hear the word which Jehovah speaks to you, O house of Israel.
Jer. 10
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Thus says Jehovah,
Do not learn the way of the nations,
And do not be terrified by the
asigns of the heavens,
Although the nations are terrified by them.
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For the customs of the peoples are vanity,
Because
their god is a tree cut from the forest,
The work of the
ahands of a craftsman with an ax.
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He adorns it with silver and with gold;
They fasten it with nails and hammers
So that it cannot totter.
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They are like a
1post in a cucumber field,
And they cannot speak;
They must be carried
Because they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
For they cannot do evil,
And neither is it in them to do good.
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There is
anone like You, O Jehovah;
You are great,
And Your name is great in might.
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Who would not fear You,
O
aKing of the nations?
For it befits You,
For among all the wise of the nations
And in all their kingdoms
There is none like You.
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But they are altogether stupid and foolish;
The instruction of
their idols is
mere wood.
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Beaten silver
Is brought from Tarshish,
And gold from Uphaz,
The work of a craftsman
And of the hands of a goldsmith.
Their clothing is blue and purple;
All of them are the work of skillful men.
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But Jehovah is the true God;
He is the
aliving God and the eternal
bKing.
At His wrath the earth quakes,
And the nations cannot endure His indignation.
Jer. 10
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1Thus you shall say to them, The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth, these will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.
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aIt is He who made the
bearth by His power,
Who established the
cworld by His wisdom,
And by His understanding He stretched out the
dheavens.
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When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,
aAnd He causes the vapors to rise from the ends of the earth;
He makes lightning for the rain
And brings forth wind from His treasuries.
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Every man is stupid, without knowledge;
Every goldsmith is put to shame by
his idol;
For his molten image is falsehood,
And there is no breath in them.
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They are vanity, the work of delusion;
At the time of their punishment they will perish.
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The aPortion of Jacob is not like these;
For He is the One who formed everything,
And Israel is the tribe of His
binheritance;
Jehovah of hosts is His name.
Jer. 10
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Gather up your bundle from the ground,
O inhabitant under siege.
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For thus says Jehovah,
I will sling out
The inhabitants of the land
At this time,
And I will bring distress on them,
That they may find
it.
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Woe is me because of my hurt!
My wound is grievous.
But I said, Truly this is
my affliction,
And I must bear it.
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My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken;
My children have gone from me and they are not;
There is no one who will spread out my tent again
And set up my curtains.
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For the shepherds are stupid
And have not sought Jehovah;
Therefore they have not prospered,
And all their flock is
ascattered.
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The sound of a report! Here it comes,
Even a great commotion
1from the land of the north,
To make the cities of Judah
A desolation, a habitation of jackals.
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I know, O Jehovah,
That a man’s way is not in himself;
It is not in the man who walks
To direct his step.
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aCorrect me, O Jehovah, but in measure,
Not in Your anger lest You bring me to nothing.
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aPour out Your wrath on the nations
Who do not
bknow You
And upon the families
Who do not call upon Your name;
For they have devoured Jacob, yes, devoured him and brought him to an end,
And they have desolated his habitation.
