Jer 10
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Hear you the word which YHWH speaks to you, O house of Israel:
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thus says YHWH, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs
of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them.
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For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest,
the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
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They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers,
that it move not.
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They are like a palm-tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne,
because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is
it in them to do good.
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There is none like to you, O YHWH; you are great, and your name is great in might.
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Who should not fear you, O King of the nations? for to you does it appertain; seeing
that as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there
is none like to you.
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But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
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There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from
Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple
for their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men.
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But YHWH is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his anger
the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.
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Thus shall you say to them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth,
these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.
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He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and
by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:
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when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes
the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain,
and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.
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Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to
shame by his graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath
in them.
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They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel
is the tribe of his inheritance: YHWH of hosts is his name.
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Gather up your wares out of the land, O you that abide in the siege.
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For thus says YHWH, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time,
and will distress them, that they may feel [it].
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Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my]
grief, and I must bear it.
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My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from
me, and they are not: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
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For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of YHWH: therefore they
have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.
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The voice of tidings, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country,
to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.
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O YHWH, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walks
to direct his steps.
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O YHWH, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
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Pour out your anger upon the nations that know you not, and upon the families that
call not on your name: for they have devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him and
consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.