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Chapter
10
- 10:1
- Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house
of Israel:
- 10:2
- 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.
- 10:3
- 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.
- 10:4
- They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with
nails and with hammers, that it move not.
- 10:5
- 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.
- 10:6
- Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art
great, and thy name is great in might.
- 10:7
- 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.
- 10:8
- But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is
a doctrine of vanities.
- 10:9
- 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.
- 10:10
- 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.
- 10:11
- 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.
- 10:12
- 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.
- 10:13
- 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.
- 10:14
- 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.
- 10:15
- They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their
visitation they shall perish.
- 10:16
- 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.
- 10:17
- Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the
fortress.
- 10:18
- 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.
- 10:19
- Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said,
Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
- 10:20
- 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.
- 10:21
- For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the
LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks
shall be scattered.
- 10:22
- 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.
- 10:23
- O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it
is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
- 10:24
- O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger,
lest thou bring me to nothing.
- 10:25
- 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.
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