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href="../jeremiah/9.htm" title="Jeremiah 9">◄</a> Jeremiah 10 <a href="../jeremiah/11.htm" title="Jeremiah 11">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/jeremiah/10.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Idols and the Living God</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Hear the word that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> speaks to you, O house of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>:</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“Learn not the way of the nations,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens</span><br /><span class="indent">because the nations are dismayed at them,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">for the customs of the peoples are vanity.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or vapor, or mist">a</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="ln-group">A tree from the forest is cut down</span><br /><span class="indent">and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They decorate it with silver and gold;</span><br /><span class="indent">they fasten it with hammer and nails</span><br /><span class="indent">so that it cannot move.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Their idols<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew They">b</a></sup></span> are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,</span><br /><span class="indent">and they cannot speak;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they have to be carried,</span><br /><span class="indent">for they cannot walk.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Do not be afraid of them,</span><br /><span class="indent">for they cannot do evil,</span><br /><span class="indent">neither is it in them to do good.”</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">There is none like you, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="indent">you are great, and your name is great in might.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Who would not fear you, O King of the nations?</span><br /><span class="indent">For this is your due;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for among all the wise ones of the nations</span><br /><span class="indent">and in all their kingdoms</span><br /><span class="indent">there is none like you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They are both stupid and foolish;</span><br /><span class="indent">the instruction of idols is but wood!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish,</span><br /><span class="indent">and gold from Uphaz.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith;</span><br /><span class="indent">their clothing is violet and purple;</span><br /><span class="indent">they are all the work of skilled men.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is the true God;</span><br /><span class="indent">he is the living God and the everlasting King.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">At his wrath the earth quakes,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the nations cannot endure his indignation.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Thus shall you say to them: “The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="This verse is in Aramaic">c</a></sup></span></p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">It is he who made the earth by his power,</span><br /><span class="indent">who established the world by his wisdom,</span><br /><span class="indent">and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,</span><br /><span class="indent">and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">He makes lightning for the rain,</span><br /><span class="indent">and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Every man is stupid and without knowledge;</span><br /><span class="indent">every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for his images are false,</span><br /><span class="indent">and there is no breath in them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They are worthless, a work of delusion;</span><br /><span class="indent">at the time of their punishment they shall perish.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Not like these is he who is the portion of Jacob,</span><br /><span class="indent">for he is the one who formed all things,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance;</span><br /><span class="indent">the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts is his name.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Gather up your bundle from the ground,</span><br /><span class="indent">O you who dwell under siege!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>:</span><br /><span class="ln-group">“Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land</span><br /><span class="indent">at this time,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and I will bring distress on them,</span><br /><span class="indent">that they may feel it.”</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Woe is me because of my hurt!</span><br /><span class="indent">My wound is grievous.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">But I said, “Truly this is an affliction,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I must bear it.”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My tent is destroyed,</span><br /><span class="indent">and all my cords are broken;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">my children have gone from me,</span><br /><span class="indent">and they are not;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">there is no one to spread my tent again</span><br /><span class="indent">and to set up my curtains.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For the shepherds are stupid</span><br /><span class="indent">and do not inquire of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">therefore they have not prospered,</span><br /><span class="indent">and all their flock is scattered.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">A voice, a rumor! Behold, it comes!—</span><br /><span class="indent">a great commotion out of the north country</span><br /><span class="ln-group">to make the cities of Judah a desolation,</span><br /><span class="indent">a lair of jackals.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I know, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, that the way of man is not in himself,</span><br /><span class="indent">that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Correct me, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, but in justice;</span><br /><span class="indent">not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/10-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not,</span><br /><span class="indent">and on the peoples that call not on your name,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for they have devoured Jacob;</span><br /><span class="indent">they have devoured him and consumed him,</span><br /><span class="indent">and have laid waste his habitation.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i>vapor</i>, or <i>mist</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Hebrew <i>They</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> This verse is in Aramaic<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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