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Jeremiah 10

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

10:1

Hear ye the word of the Lord, which he has spoken to you, O house of Israel.

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10:2

Thus saith the Lord, Learn ye not the ways of the heathen, and be not alarmed at the signs of the sky; for they are alarmed at them, [falling] on their faces.

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10:3

For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.

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10:4

[They are] beautified with silver and gold, they fix them with hammers and nails;

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10:9

it is forged silver [brought] from Tharsis, gold will come from Mophaz, and the work of goldsmiths: [they are] all the works of craftsmen, they will clothe themselves with blue and scarlet.

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10:5

they will set them up that they may not move; it is wrought silver, they will not walk,

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10:11

Thus shall ye say to them, Let the gods which have not made heaven and earth perish from off the earth, and from under this sky.

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10:12

It is the Lord that made the earth by his strength, who set up the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the sky,

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10:13

and set abundance of waters in the sky, and brought up clouds from the ends of the earth; he made lightnings for the rain, and brought forth light out of his treasures.

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10:14

Every man is deprived of knowledge, every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images; for he has cast false gods, there is no breath in them.

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10:15

They are vain works, wrought in mockery; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

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10:16

Such is not the portion of Jacob; for he that formed all things, he is his inheritance; the Lord is his name.

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10:17

He has gathered thy substance from without that lodged in choice [vessels].

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10:18

For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I [will] overthrow the inhabitants of this land with affliction, that thy plague may be discovered.

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10:19

Alas for thy ruin! thy plague is grievous: and I said, Surely this is thy wound, and it has overtaken thee.

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10:20

Thy tabernacle is in a ruinous state, it has perished; and all thy curtains have been torn asunder: my children and my cattle are no more: there is no more any place for my tabernacle, [nor] place for my curtains.

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10:21

For the shepherds have become foolish, and have not sought the Lord; therefore the whole pasture has failed, and [the sheep] have been scattered.

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10:22

Behold, there comes a sound of a noise, and a great earthquake from the land of the north, to make the cities of Juda a desolation, and a resting-place for ostriches.

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10:23

I know, O Lord, that man's way is not his own; neither shall a man go, and direct his going.

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10:24

Chasten us, O Lord, but with judgment; and not in wrath, lest thou make us few.

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10:25

Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the families that have not called upon thy name: for they have devoured Jacob, and consumed him, and have made his pasture desolate.

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10:9

They must certainly be borne, for they cannot ride [of themselves]. Fear them not; for they cannot do any evil, and there is no good in them.

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