Jeremiah 10:1-25 KJ21

[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 ax. [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 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] Inasmuch 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, inasmuch 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 beaten 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 skillful 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 vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He maketh lightning with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of His treasuries. [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 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 despoiled, and all my cords are broken; my children are gone forth from me, and they are no more; 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 clamor 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.