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Jeremiah 10

10 You people of Israel, listen to what Yahweh says to you:

2 This is what he says to you, “Do not act like the people of other nations act, and do not be terrified by strange things that you see in the sky,

even though they cause the people of other nations to be terrified.

3 The customs of the people of other nations are worthless. For example, they cut down a tree in the forest

and then a skilled worker cuts a section of it and uses his chisel to carve an idol from that section.

4 Then people decorate the idol with silver and gold.

Then they fasten it securely with nails in order that it will not fall over.

5 Idols stand there like a scarecrow in a field of cucumbers.

Idols cannot speak,

and people must carry them,

because they cannot walk.

Do not be afraid of idols,

because they cannot harm anyone,

and they cannot do anything good to help anyone.”

6 Yahweh, there is no one like you.

You are great, and you are very powerful.

7 You are the king of all the nations!

Everyone should revere you,

because that is what you deserve,

and because among all the wise people on the earth

and in all the kingdoms where they live,

there is no one like you.

8 Those people are altogether very foolish.

Seeking instruction from a wooden idol is totally useless.

9 People hammer silver from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz into sheets.

People then give those sheets of silver and gold to craftsmen and goldsmiths to cover the idols.

Then they put on those idols expensive violet and purple robes

that skilled workers have made.

10 But Yahweh is the only true God;

he is the only God who is alive,

the king who rules forever.

When he is angry, all the earth shakes;

and the people of the nations cannot endure what he does when he is angry with them.

11 You Israelite people must tell this to those people: “Those idols did not make the sky and the earth, and they will disappear from the earth.”

12 But Yahweh made the earth by his power;

he established it by his wisdom

and stretched out the sky by his understanding.

13 When Yahweh loudly speaks, the sky makes a loud noise as it rains

and he causes clouds to form over every part of the earth.

He sends lightning with the rain

and releases the wind from where he keeps it.

14 Every person who worships idols is stupid and does not know what is true.

Everyone who make idols is disappointed by them

because their idols do nothing for them.

The images that they make are not real gods;

they are lifeless.

15 Idols are worthless; they are a creation that people should ridicule;

Yahweh will ensure that they perish, when he punishes them.

16 Yahweh, the inheritance of Jacob and his descendants is not like these idols;

because he is the one who created everything.

We, the people of Israel, belong to him;

he is the commander of the angel armies.

17 You people of Jerusalem

should gather up your possessions in a bundle and prepare to leave,

because the army of your enemies surrounds your city.

18 Yahweh says this to the people of Jerusalem: “I will soon expel you from this land

and cause you to experience great troubles

so that you will have severe pain.”

19 I Jeremiah thought to myself,

“Woe to us because it is as though we have been badly wounded!”

But I said,

“Surely this is like a sickness, and we must endure it. 20 Our enemies will soon destroy our tents

and rip apart all the ropes that hold them up.

Our children will soon go away from us and will not return.

There will be no people left to put our tents up again and set up their curtains.

21 Our leaders do not have any sense

and do not ask Yahweh to guide them,

so they have not prospered.

All those they lead will be scattered.

22 A report is coming. Listen! Our enemies’ army in the north is making a very great noise

as their soldiers march toward us.

They will destroy the cities in Judah,

and those cities will become a place where jackals live.”

23 Yahweh, I know that no person controls what will happen to him;

no one is able to direct the events that he will experience.

24 So correct us, Yahweh, but do it gently.

Do not correct us when you are angry,

because we would die if you did that.

25 Punish all the nations whose people do not acknowledge that you are God;

punish all the families who do not worship you,

because they are completely destroying us people of Israel

and they are causing our land to soon be an uninhabited wasteland.