Jeremiah 10:1–10

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

2  Thus 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.

3  For 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.

4  fThey deck it with silver and with gold;

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

5  They 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.

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

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

7  pWho 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.

8  But they are †altogether tbrutish and ufoolish:

vThe stock is a doctrine of vanities.

9  Silver 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.

10  But 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.