“1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of
Israel: 2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be
not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at
them. 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
axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails
and with hammers, that it move not. 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 do evil, neither also [is it] in
them to do good. 6 Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto thee, O LORD;
thou [art] great, and thy name [is] great in might. 7 Who would not fear
thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as
among all the wise [men] of the nations, and in all their kingdoms,
[there is] none like unto thee. 8 But they are altogether brutish and
foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities. 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 But the LORD [is]
the true God, he [is] the living God, and an everlasting king: at his
wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to
abide his indignation. 11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that
have not made the heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from
the earth, and from under these heavens. 12 He hath made the earth by
his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath
stretched out the heavens by his discretion. 13 When he uttereth his
voice, [there is] a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth
the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings
with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. 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. 15 They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the
time of their visitation they shall perish. 16 The portion of Jacob [is]
not like them: for he [is] the former of all [things]; and Israel [is]
the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts [is] his name.”
“17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
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]. 19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly
this [is] a grief, and I must bear it. 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. 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. 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. 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. 24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger,
lest thou bring me to nothing. 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.” (Jeremiah 10:1-25 AV)