Jeremiah 10 - English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK)

Idols and the Living God

10 Hear the word that the Lord speaks to you, O house of Israel. 2 Thus says the Lord:

“Learn not the way of the nations,
nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens
because the nations are dismayed at them,
3 (A)for the customs of the peoples are vanity.[a]
(B)A tree from the forest is cut down
and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
4 (C)They decorate it with silver and gold;
(D)they fasten it with hammer and nails
so that it cannot move.
5 Their idols[b] are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
and (E)they cannot speak;
(F)they have to be carried,
for they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
(G)for they cannot do evil,
neither is it in them to do good.”
6 (H)There is none like you, O Lord;
you are great, and your name is great in might.
7 (I)Who would not fear you, O King of the nations?
For this is your due;
for among all the wise ones of the nations
and in all their kingdoms
there is none like you.
8 (J)They are both (K)stupid and foolish;
the instruction of idols is but wood!
9 (L)Beaten silver is brought from (M)Tarshish,
and gold from (N)Uphaz.
(O)They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith;
their clothing is violet and purple;
(P)they are all the work of skilled men.
10 (Q)But the Lord is the true God;
(R)he is the living God and the everlasting King.
At his wrath the earth quakes,
and the nations cannot endure his indignation.

11 Thus shall you say to them: (S)“The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth (T)shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”[c]

12 (U)It is he who (V)made the earth by his power,
(W)who established the world by his wisdom,
and (X)by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
13 (Y)When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,
(Z)and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth.
(AA)He makes lightning (AB)for the rain,
(AC)and he brings forth the wind (AD)from his storehouses.
14 (AE)Every man is stupid and without knowledge;
(AF)every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,
for his images are false,
(AG)and there is no breath in them.
15 They are worthless, a work of delusion;
at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
16 Not like these is he who is (AH)the portion of Jacob,
for he is the one who formed all things,
(AI)and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance;
(AJ)the Lord of hosts is his name.
17 (AK)Gather up your bundle from the ground,
O you who dwell under siege!
18 For thus says the Lord:
(AL)“Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land
at this time,
(AM)and I will bring distress on them,
that they may feel it.”
19 Woe is me because of my hurt!
(AN)My wound is grievous.
But I said, “Truly this is an affliction,
and I must bear it.”
20 (AO)My tent is destroyed,
and all my cords are broken;
my children have gone from me,
(AP)and they are not;
there is no one to spread my tent again
and (AQ)to set up my curtains.
21 (AR)For the shepherds (AS)are stupid
and do not enquire of the Lord;
therefore they have not prospered,
(AT)and all their flock is scattered.
22 A voice, a rumour! Behold, it comes!—
(AU)a great commotion out of the north country
to make (AV)the cities of Judah a desolation,
(AW)a lair of jackals.
23 (AX)I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself,
that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
24 (AY)Correct me, O Lord, but in justice;
not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
25 (AZ)Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not,
and on the peoples that call not on your name,
(BA)for they have devoured Jacob;
they have devoured him and consumed him,
and have laid waste his habitation.

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 10:3 Or vapour, or mist
  2. Jeremiah 10:5 Hebrew They
  3. Jeremiah 10:11 This verse is in Aramaic

Cross references

  1. Jeremiah 10:3 : Isa. 44:9
  2. Jeremiah 10:3 : Isa. 40:20; 45:20
  3. Jeremiah 10:4 : Isa. 40:19
  4. Jeremiah 10:4 : Isa. 41:7
  5. Jeremiah 10:5 : Ps. 115:5; 135:16; Hab. 2:18, 19; 1 Cor. 12:2
  6. Jeremiah 10:5 : Ps. 115:7; Isa. 46:7
  7. Jeremiah 10:5 : Isa. 41:23
  8. Jeremiah 10:6 : ch. 49:19; Ex. 15:11; Ps. 86:8, 10
  9. Jeremiah 10:7 : ch. 5:22; Rev. 15:4
  10. Jeremiah 10:8 : [Isa. 41:29; Hab. 2:18; Zech. 10:2]
  11. Jeremiah 10:8 : ver. 21
  12. Jeremiah 10:9 : Isa. 40:19
  13. Jeremiah 10:9 : Gen. 10:4; See 1 Kgs. 10:22
  14. Jeremiah 10:9 : Dan. 10:5
  15. Jeremiah 10:9 : Isa. 40:19
  16. Jeremiah 10:9 : Ps. 115:4
  17. Jeremiah 10:10 : Deut. 32:4; Ps. 31:5
  18. Jeremiah 10:10 : Ps. 42:2
  19. Jeremiah 10:11 : [Ps. 96:5]
  20. Jeremiah 10:11 : ver. 15; Isa. 2:18; Zech. 13:2
  21. Jeremiah 10:12 : For ver. 12-16, see ch. 51:15-19
  22. Jeremiah 10:12 : Gen. 1:1, 6, 9; Ps. 104:5; Prov. 3:19
  23. Jeremiah 10:12 : Gen. 1:1, 6, 9; Ps. 104:5; Prov. 3:19
  24. Jeremiah 10:12 : Job 9:8
  25. Jeremiah 10:13 : [Job 38:34; Ps. 104:6, 7]
  26. Jeremiah 10:13 : Ps. 135:7
  27. Jeremiah 10:13 : Ps. 135:7
  28. Jeremiah 10:13 : ch. 14:22; Job 5:10
  29. Jeremiah 10:13 : Ps. 135:7
  30. Jeremiah 10:13 : Job 38:22
  31. Jeremiah 10:14 : ver. 8; Prov. 30:2; [Rom. 1:22]
  32. Jeremiah 10:14 : See Isa. 42:17
  33. Jeremiah 10:14 : Ps. 135:17; Hab. 2:19
  34. Jeremiah 10:16 : Ps. 16:5
  35. Jeremiah 10:16 : Deut. 32:9
  36. Jeremiah 10:16 : ch. 31:35; 32:18; 50:34
  37. Jeremiah 10:17 : [ch. 6:1; Ezek. 12:3]
  38. Jeremiah 10:18 : 1 Sam. 25:29
  39. Jeremiah 10:18 : Deut. 28:20
  40. Jeremiah 10:19 : ch. 14:17; 30:12
  41. Jeremiah 10:20 : ch. 4:20; [Isa. 54:2]
  42. Jeremiah 10:20 : ch. 31:15
  43. Jeremiah 10:20 : ch. 4:20; [Isa. 54:2]
  44. Jeremiah 10:21 : ch. 23:1; Ezek. 34:2
  45. Jeremiah 10:21 : ver. 8
  46. Jeremiah 10:21 : Ezek. 34:5, 6
  47. Jeremiah 10:22 : See ch. 1:13
  48. Jeremiah 10:22 : See ch. 9:11
  49. Jeremiah 10:22 : See ch. 9:11
  50. Jeremiah 10:23 : Prov. 16:1; 20:24; Dan. 5:23
  51. Jeremiah 10:24 : ch. 30:11; 46:28; Ps. 6:1; 38:1
  52. Jeremiah 10:25 : Ps. 79:6, 7
  53. Jeremiah 10:25 : ch. 8:16; 30:16; Ps. 14:4

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