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Chapter 10
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Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you,
O house of Israel: |
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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
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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. |
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They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten
it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. |
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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. |
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Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD;
thou art great, and thy name is great in might. |
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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. |
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But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock
is a doctrine of vanities. |
9
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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
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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. |
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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
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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
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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. |
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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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They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time
of their visitation they shall perish. |
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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. |
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Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of
the fortress. |
18
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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. |
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Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I
said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it. |
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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. |
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For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought
the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their
flocks shall be scattered. |
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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. |
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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
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O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine
anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. |
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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. |
