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Jeremiah 10

10 Listen to the word of the Eternal for you, O house of Israel; here is what the Eternal says:

Never learn to live like pagans,

dismayed at portents in the sky;

pagans are dismayed at them,

but their rites are inane.

Here is a tree felled from the forest,

trimmed by a woodman’s axe,

decked out with silver and with gold,

with plates of silver from Tartessus,

with gold from Ophir,

all jewellers’ and joiners’ work,

decked out in violet and purple cloth,

the work of craftsmen,

then propped with nails and hammer,

to keep it from falling!

Idols are like scarecrows in a field,

they cannot say a word;

they have to be carried,

for they cannot move a step.

Have no fear of them; they cannot hurt you--

no, nor help you!

[[There is none like thee, O Eternal;

great thou art, great thy presence in its power!

O King of nations, who would not revere thee?

For reverence is thy due;

no sage, no royalty, in all the world,

none is like thee.]]

Stupid and senseless are they, one and all--

what idols teach is wooden like themselves!

But the Eternal is the real God,

a living God, an everlasting King;

earth trembles when he rages,

no nation can endure his wrath 11 [[Tell them this: the gods who never made heaven and earth shall vanish off the earth and from under heaven]],

who by his power made the earth,

who by his wisdom founded the world,

and by his knowledge spread heaven out;

when he thunders, the heavens are in tumult,

he makes mists rise from the ends of the earth,

he flashes lightning through the rain,

and brings wind from his storehouses.

It strikes man dumb and senseless;

the goldsmith is ashamed of his carved image,

his metal image is a futile thing.

There is no breath of life in idols;

they are a vain delusion,

they break down when the test arrives--

not like him who is Jacob’s own possession;

for he who formed the universe is Jacob’s God,

his name is the Lord of hosts. * * *

Pick up your bundle to depart,

O city besieged!

[[For here is what the Eternal says: This time I proceed to eject the inhabitants of the country and harry them until they pay the penalty.]]

I said, “Alas, I am undone,

my wound is deep!

a wound indeed, and yet

I must endure it.

My tent is wrecked,

the ropes all broken;

my children are no more,

they are all gone,

none left to raise my tent again,

to hang up its curtains.

For the authorities were senseless,

seeking no guidance from the Eternal;

so they had no success,

and all their folk are scattered.

Listen, there comes a din,

a mighty clamour from the north!

Judah’s townships are to turn a waste,

a haunt for jackals.” 23 [[O thou Eternal, well thou knowest that man’s course lies not in his own hands; it is not in a man to have control over his actions. 24 So correct us, O Eternal One, but not too hard; not in a passion of thine anger, lest thou make our numbers few.

Vent thy full fury on pagans who disown thee,

on races who never invoke thee;

for they have devoured Jacob utterly

and laid waste his homestead.]]