Jeremiah Chapter 10
10:1 | Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O ![]() ![]() |
10:2 | Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the ![]() |
10:3 | For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. |
10:4 | They deck it with silver and with ![]() |
10:5 | They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot ![]() ![]() ![]() |
10:6 | Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto thee, O LORD; thou ![]() |
10:7 | Who would not fear thee, O ![]() |
10:8 | But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities. |
10:9 | Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple [is] their clothing: they [are] all the work of cunning [men]. |
10:10 | But the LORD [is] the true God, he [is] the living God, and an everlasting ![]() ![]() |
10:11 | Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the ![]() ![]() |
10:12 | He hath made the ![]() ![]() |
10:13 | When he uttereth his voice, [there is] a multitude of ![]() ![]() |
10:14 | Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them. |
10:15 | They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the ![]() |
10:16 | The portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for he [is] the former of all [things]; and ![]() |
10:17 | Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress. |
10:18 | For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find [it so]. |
10:19 | Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this [is] a grief, and I must bear it. |
10:20 | My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they [are] not: [there is] none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. |
10:21 | For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered. |
10:22 | Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, [and] a den of dragons. |
10:23 | O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in himself: [it is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps. |
10:24 | O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. |
10:25 | Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate. |