Jeremiah 10:6–16

⁶Lord, there is no one like you.

You are great,

and your name is great and powerful.

⁷Everyone should respect you, King of the nations;

you deserve respect.

Of all the wise people among the nations

and in all the kingdoms,

none of them is as wise as you.

⁸Those wise people are stupid and foolish.

Their teachings come from worthless wooden idols.

⁹Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish

and gold from Uphaz,

so the idols are made by craftsmen and goldsmiths.

They put blue and purple clothes on the idols.

All these things are made by skilled workers.

¹⁰But the Lord is the only true God.

He is the only living God, the King forever.

The earth shakes when he is angry,

and the nations cannot stand up to his anger.

¹¹“Tell them this message: ‘These gods did not make heaven and earth; they will be destroyed and disappear from heaven and earth.’ ”

¹²God made the earth by his power.

He used his wisdom to build the world

and his understanding to stretch out the skies.

¹³When he thunders, the waters in the skies roar.

He makes clouds rise in the sky all over the earth.

He sends lightning with the rain

and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

¹⁴People are so stupid and know so little.

Goldsmiths are made ashamed by their idols,

because those statues are only false gods.

They have no breath in them.

¹⁵They are worth nothing; people make fun of them.

When they are judged, they will be destroyed.

¹⁶But God, who is Jacob’s Portion, is not like the idols.

He made everything,

and he chose Israel to be his special people.

The Lord All-Powerful is his name.