Jeremiah 10:6–16

⁶There is none like you, O Yahweh,

you are great and your name is great in might.

⁷Who would not revere you, O king of the nations?

For you it is fitting.

For among all the wise men of the nations,

and in all their kingdoms,^b

there is none like you.

⁸At the same time^c they are stupid and foolish,

in the instruction of idols, it is wood.

⁹Silver beaten from Tarshish is brought,

and gold from Uphaz,

the work of the craftsman and the hands of the goldsmith.

Blue and purple are their clothing,

all of them are the work of skillful people.

¹⁰But Yahweh is the true God,

he is the living God,

and an everlasting king.^d

Because of his wrath the earth quakes,

and the nations cannot endure his anger.

¹¹“Thus^e you shall say to them,

‘Gods who did not make the heavens and the earth

will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.

¹²He is the maker of the earth by his power,

who created the world by his wisdom,

and by his understanding he stretched out heaven.

¹³When he utters his voice^f there is a noise of water in the heavens,

and he causes the mist to rise from the ends^g of the earth.

He makes lightning for the rain,

and he causes the wind to go out from his storehouses.

¹⁴Everyone^h is stupid, without knowledge,ⁱ

every goldsmith is ashamed by his divine image,

for his cast image is an illusion,

and there is no breath in them.

¹⁵They are vanity, a work of mockery,

at the time of their punishment, they will perish.

¹⁶The portion of Jacob is not like these,

for he is the creator of everything,

and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance,

Yahweh of hosts is his name.