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Justice, and righteousness, in the earth;

For in these things I delight,

Saith the Lord.

²⁴Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them that are circumcised in their uncircumcision: ²⁵Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their hair polled, that dwell in the wilderness;

For all the nations are uncircumcised,

But all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

10Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel; ²thus saith the Lord:

Learn not the way of the nations,

And be not dismayed at the signs of heaven;

For the nations are dismayed at them.

³For the customs of the peoples are vanity;

For it is but a tree which one cutteth out of the forest,

The work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

⁴They deck it with silver and with gold,

They fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

⁵They are like a pillar in a garden of cucumbers, and speak not;

They must needs be borne, because they cannot go.

Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil,

Neither is it in them to do good.

 

⁶There is none like unto Thee, O Lord;

Thou art great, and Thy name is great in might.

⁷Who would not fear Thee, O king of the nations?

For it befitteth Thee;

Forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royalty,

There is none like unto Thee.

⁸But they are altogether brutish and foolish:

The vanities by which they are instructed are but a stock;

⁹Silver beaten into plates which is brought from Tarshish,

And gold from Uphaz,

The work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith;

Blue and purple is their clothing;

They are all the work of skilful men.

¹⁰But the Lord God is the true God,

He is the living God, and the everlasting King;

At His wrath the earth trembleth,

And the nations are not able to abide His indignation.

¹¹Thus shall ye say unto them: 'The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.'

¹²He that hath made the earth by His power,

That hath established the world by His wisdom,

And hath stretched out the heavens by His understanding;

¹³At the sound of His giving a multitude of waters in the heavens,

When He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth;

When He maketh lightnings with the rain,

And bringeth forth the wind out of His treasuries;

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