|
God
and Idols
10:1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto
you, O house of Israel:
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.
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.
10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it
with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
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.
10:6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD;
thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
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.
10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock
is a doctrine of vanities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
10:15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time
of their visitation they shall perish.
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.
Coming Destruction
10:17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of
the fortress.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jeremiah’s Prayer
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.
10:24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine
anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
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. |
Cults 
Why Did God Permit Sin?
