Jeremiah 10:6–16

⁶Because there is none like Thee, O Jehovah, Great art Thou, and great Thy name in might. ⁷Who doth not fear Thee, king of the nations? For to Thee it is becoming, For among all the wise of the nations, And in all their kingdom there is none like Thee. ⁸And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities is the tree itself. ⁹Spread-out silver from Tarshish is brought, And gold from Uphaz, Work of an artisan, and of the hands of a refiner, Blue and purple is their clothing, Work of the skilful—all of them. ¹⁰And Jehovah is a God of truth, He is a living God, and a king age-during, From His wrath shake doth the earth, And nations endure not His indignation. ¹¹Thus do ye say to them, The gods Who the heavens and earth have not made, They do perish from the earth, And from under these heavens. ¹²The maker of the earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who, by His understanding, stretched forth the heavens, ¹³At the voice He giveth forth, A multitude of waters is in the heavens, And He causeth vapours to come up from the end of the earth, Lightnings for rain He hath made, And bringeth out wind from His treasures. ¹⁴Brutish is every man by knowledge, Put to shame is every refiner by a graven image, For false is his molten image. And there is no breath in them. ¹⁵Vanity are they, work of erring ones, In the time of their inspection they perish. ¹⁶Not like these is the Portion of Jacob, For framer of all things is He, And Israel is the rod of His inheritance, Jehovah of Hosts is His name.