Jeremiah 10
The False Gods and the
True God |
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Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
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thus 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.
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For 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.
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They deck it with silver and with gold;
they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move
not.
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They 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.
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Forasmuch as there is none like
unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and
thy name is great in might.
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Who would not fear thee, O King of
nations? Rev. 15.4 for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the
wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there
is none like unto thee.
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But they are altogether brutish and
foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
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Silver spread into plates is brought from
Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the
hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.
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But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an
everlasting King: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the
nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
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Thus 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.
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He hath made the earth by his power, he
hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the
heavens by his discretion.
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When he uttereth his voice, there
is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the
vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings
with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his
treasures.
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Every 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.
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They are vanity, and the
work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall
perish.
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The 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.
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The Desolation of
Judah |
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Gather up thy wares out of the land, O
inhabitant of the fortress.
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For 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.
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Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is
grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear
it.
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My 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.
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For the pastors are become brutish, and
have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall
not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
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Behold, 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.
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O LORD, I know
that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in
man that walketh to direct his steps.
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O LORD, correct me,
but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to
nothing.
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Pour 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.
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