| Chapter
10 |
| 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. |
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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. |
