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Jeremiah 10 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Yahweh Alone Is the Living God

Jer 10:1

Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, O house of Israel.

Jer 10:2Thus says Yahweh,

“Do not learn the way of the nations,

And do not be terrified by the signs of the heavens

Although the nations are terrified by them;

Jer 10:3

For the statutes of the peoples are vanity

Because it is wood cut from the forest,

The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

Jer 10:4

“They make it beautiful with silver and with gold;

They strengthen it with nails and with hammers

So that it will not totter.

Jer 10:5

“Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they,

And they cannot speak;

They must be carried

Because they cannot take a step!

Do not fear them,

For they can do no harm,

Nor can they do any good.”

Jer 10:6

There is none like You, O Yahweh;

You are great, and great is Your name in might.

Jer 10:7

Who would not fear You, O King of the nations?

Indeed it is Your due!

For among all the wise men of the nations

And in all their kingdoms,

There is none like You.

Jer 10:8

But they are altogether senseless and foolish;

They are in a discipline of [fn]vanities—it is mere wood!

Jer 10:9

Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish,

And gold from Uphaz,

The work of a craftsman and of the hands of a goldsmith;

Blue and purple are their clothing;

They are all the work of wise craftsmen.

Jer 10:10

But Yahweh is the true God;

He is the living God and the everlasting King.

At His wrath the earth quakes,

And the nations cannot endure His indignation.

Jer 10:11

[fn]Thus you shall say to them, “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under [fn]the heavens.”

Jer 10:12

It is He who made the earth by His power,

Who established the world by His wisdom;

And by His understanding He has stretched out the heavens.

Jer 10:13

When He gives forth His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,

And He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth;

He makes lightning for the rain,

And brings out the wind from His storehouses.

Jer 10:14

Every man is senseless, devoid of knowledge;

Every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven images;

For his molten images are a lie,

And there is no breath in them.

Jer 10:15

They are vanity, a work of mockery;

In the time of their punishment they will perish.

Jer 10:16

The portion of Jacob is not like these;

For the [fn]Maker of all is He,

And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance;

Yahweh of hosts is His name.

Jer 10:17

Gather up your bundle from the ground,

You who inhabit a land under siege!

Jer 10:18For thus says Yahweh,

“Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land

At this time,

And will cause them distress,

That they may find it.”

Jer 10:19

Woe is me, because of my [fn]injury!

My wound is desperately sick.

But I said, “Truly this is a sickness,

And I must bear it.”

Jer 10:20

My tent is destroyed,

And all my ropes are torn out;

My sons have gone from me and are no more.

There is no one to stretch out my tent again

Or to set up my curtains.

Jer 10:21

For the shepherds have become senseless

And have not sought Yahweh;

Therefore they have not prospered,

And all their flock is scattered.

Jer 10:22

The sound of a report! Behold, it comes

A great quaking out of the land of the north

To make the cities of Judah

A desolation, a haunt of jackals.

Jer 10:23

I know, O Yahweh, that a man’s way is not in himself,

Nor is it in a man who walks to [fn]direct his steps.

Jer 10:24

Discipline me, O Yahweh, but with justice;

Not with Your anger, lest You [fn]bring me to nothing.

Jer 10:25

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You

And on the families that do not call Your name,

For they have devoured Jacob;

They have devoured him and consumed him

And have made desolate his [fn]abode.

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