Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Jeremiah:
Chapter 10
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 axe.
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 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.
6. Forasmuch 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: forasmuch 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 spread into plates is brought from Tar-shish, and gold from U-phaz,
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. 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 vapours to ascend from the ends of the
earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out
of his treasures.
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 at 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 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.
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 bruit 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.
Oct. 26 Daily reading schedule.. go to chapter 11
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