Jeremiah 10

10Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:

²Thus saith the Lord,

Learn not the way of the heathen,

And ^abe not dismayed at the signs of heaven;

For the heathen are dismayed at them.

³For the ^†ccustoms of the people are vain:

For ^done cutteth a tree out of the forest,

The work of the hands of the workman, ^ewith the axe.

^4fThey deck it with silver and with gold;

^gThey fasten it with nails and with hammers, ^ghthat it move not.

⁵They are ⁱupright as ^kthe palm tree, ^lbut speak not:

^mThey must needs be borne, because they cannot go.

Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil,

ⁿNeither also is it in them to do good.

⁶Forasmuch as there is ^onone like unto thee, O Lord;

^oThou art great, and thy name is great in might.

^7pWho would not fear thee, ^qO King of nations? for ^||to thee doth it appertain:

Forasmuch as among all ^rthe wise men of the nations, and ^sin all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.

⁸But they are ^†altogether ^tbrutish and ^ufoolish:

^vThe stock is a doctrine of vanities.

⁹Silver ^wspread into plates is brought from ^xTarshish,

And gold from ^yUphaz, the work of ^wthe workman, and of the hands of ^wthe founder:

^zBlue and ^apurple is their clothing:

^bThey are all the work of cunning men.

¹⁰But the Lord is the ^†true God,

He is ^cthe living God, and an ^†everlasting king:

At his wrath the earth shall tremble,

And the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

^11†Thus shall ye say unto them, ^dThe gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even ^ethey shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.

^12fgHe hath made the earth by his power,

^hHe hath established the world by his wisdom,

And ⁱhath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

¹³ⁱⁱWhen he ^kuttereth his voice, there is a ^||multitude of waters in the heavens,

And ^kkhe causeth ^lthe vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth;

^llHe maketh lightnings ^||with rain,

And ^kkbringeth forth the wind out of ^mhis treasures.

¹⁴Every man ^n||is brutish in his knowledge:

Every founder ^ois confounded by the graven image:

For his molten image ^pis falsehood, and ^qthere is no breath in them.

^15rThey are vanity, and the work of errors:

In the time of ^stheir visitation ^ethey shall perish.

^16tThe portion of Jacob is not like them:

For he is the former of all things;

And ^uIsrael is the rod of his inheritance:

^vThe Lord of hosts is his name.

^17wGather up thy wares out of the land,

O ^†inhabitant of ^xthe fortress.

¹⁸For thus saith the Lord,

Behold, ^yI will sling out the inhabitants of the land ^yyat this once,

And will ^zdistress them, ^athat they may find it so.

^19bWoe is me for my hurt! ^cmy wound is grievous:

^dBut I said, Truly this is a grief, and ^eI must bear it.

^20fMy tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken:

My children are gone forth of me, and ^ffthey are not:

There is none to stretch forth my tent any more,

And to set up ^fmy curtains.

²¹For ^gthe pastors ^hare become brutish,

And have not sought the Lord:

Therefore they shall not ⁱprosper,

And all their flocks shall be scattered.

²²Behold, the noise of the ^kbruit is come,

And a great commotion out of ^lthe north country,

To make the ^mcities of Judah desolate,

And ^ma den of dragons.

²³O Lord, I know that ⁿthe way of man is not in himself:

It is not in man that walketh ^oto direct his steps.

²⁴O Lord, ^pcorrect me, but with judgment;

Not in thine anger, lest thou ^†bring me to nothing.

^25qPour out thy fury upon the heathen ^rthat know thee not,

And upon the families that call not on thy name:

For they have ^seaten up Jacob, and ^sdevoured him, and consumed him,

And have made his ^thabitation desolate.