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Jeremiah 10:1-11 -
Idolatry & true worship.
Jr.10.1-11
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Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, O house of Israel.
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Thus says Yahweh:
"Learn not the way of the nations,
nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens
because the nations are dismayed at them,
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3
for the customs of the peoples are false.
A tree from the forest is cut down,
and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
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4
Men deck it with silver and gold;
they fasten it with hammer and nails
so that it cannot move.
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Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
and they cannot speak;
they have to be carried,
for they cannot walk.
Be not afraid of them,
for they cannot do evil,
neither is it in them to do good."
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There is none like you, O Yahweh;
you are great, and your name is great in might.
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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.
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8
They are both stupid and foolish;
the instruction of idols is but wood!
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9
Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish,
and gold from Uphaz.
They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith;
their clothing is violet and purple;
they are all the work of skilled men.
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But Yahweh is the true God;
he is the living God and the everlasting King.
At his wrath the earth quakes,
and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
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Thus shall you say to them: "The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens."