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JEREMIAH
10.13
- 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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