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| 10:1 |
Hear ye the word which Jehovah speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
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| 10:2 |
thus saith Jehovah, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them.
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| 10:3 |
For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
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| 10:4 |
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
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| 10:5 |
They are like a palm-tree, of turned work, 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.
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| 10:6 |
There is none like unto thee, O Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
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| 10:7 |
Who should not fear thee, O King of the nations? for to thee doth it appertain; forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like unto thee.
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| 10:8 |
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
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| 10:9 |
There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skilful men.
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| 10:10 |
But Jehovah is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.
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| 10:11 |
Thus 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.
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| 10:12 |
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens:
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| 10:13 |
when he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.
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| 10:14 |
Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
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| 10:15 |
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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| 10:16 |
The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.
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| 10:17 |
Gather up thy wares out of the land, O thou that abidest in the siege.
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| 10:18 |
For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel [it].
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| 10:19 |
Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.
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| 10:20 |
My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are not: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
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| 10:21 |
For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Jehovah: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.
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| 10:22 |
The voice of tidings, behold, it cometh, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.
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| 10:23 |
O Jehovah, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
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| 10:24 |
O Jehovah, correct me, but in measure: not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
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| 10:25 |
Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
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