Chapter 10
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10:1
- Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
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10:2
- Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
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10:3
- For the customs of the people are vain: 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 upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
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10:6
- Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
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10:7
- Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
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10:8
- But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
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10:9
- Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.
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10:10
- But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be 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, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
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10:12
- He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
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10:13
- When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
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10:14
- Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
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10:15
- They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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10:16
- The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.
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10:17
- Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
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10:18
- For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
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10:19
- Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
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10:20
- My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
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10:21
- For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
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10:22
- Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.
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10:23
- O LORD, 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 LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
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10:25
- Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
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