Jeremiah 10 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

A Satire on Idolatry

Jer 10:1Hear ye the word which Jehovah speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:

Jer 10:2thus saith Jehovah, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them.

Jer 10:3

Jer 10:3For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

Jer 10:4

Jer 10:4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

Jer 10:5

Jer 10:5They 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.

Jer 10:6

Jer 10:6There is none like unto thee, O Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

Jer 10:7

Jer 10:7Who should not fear thee, O King of the nations? for to thee doth it appertain; forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like unto thee.

Jer 10:8

Jer 10:8But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

Jer 10:9

Jer 10:9There 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 skilful men.

Jer 10:10

Jer 10:10But Jehovah is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.

Jer 10:11

Jer 10:11Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.

Jer 10:12

Jer 10:12He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens.

Jer 10:13

Jer 10:13When he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.

Jer 10:14

Jer 10:14Every 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.

Jer 10:15

Jer 10:15They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Jer 10:16

Jer 10:16The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.

Jer 10:17

Jer 10:17Gather up thy wares out of the land, O thou that abidest in the siege.

Jer 10:18

Jer 10:18For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it.

Jer 10:19

Jer 10:19Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.

Jer 10:20

Jer 10:20My 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.

Jer 10:21

Jer 10:21For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Jehovah: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

Jer 10:22

Jer 10:22The voice of tidings, behold, it cometh, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.

Jer 10:23

Jer 10:23O Jehovah, I know that the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

Jer 10:24

Jer 10:24O Jehovah, correct me, but in measure; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

Jer 10:25

Jer 10:25Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name; for they have devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Jeremiah 10 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

A Satire on Idolatry

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