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The Prophecy
of Jeremias 10
Hear ye the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning
you, O house of Israel.
Thus saith the Lord: Learn not according to the ways
of the Gentiles: and be not afraid of the signs of heaven,
which the heathens fear:
For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of
the hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest
with an axe.
He hath decked it with silver and gold: he hath put
it together with nails and hammers, that it may not
fall asunder.
They are framed after the likeness of a palm tree, and
shall not speak: they must be carried to be removed,
because they cannot go. Therefore, fear them not, for
they can neither do evil nor good.
There is none like to thee, O Lord: thou art great and
great is thy name in might.
Who shall fear thee, O king of nations? for thine is
the glory: among all the wise men of the nations, and
in all their kingdoms there is none like unto thee.
They shall all proved together to be senseless and foolish:
the doctrine of their vanity is wood.
Silver spread into plates is brought from Tharsis, and
gold from Ophaz: the work of the artificer, and of the
hand of the coppersmith: violet and purple is their
clothing: all these things are the work of artificers.
But the Lord is the true God: he is the living God,
and the everlasting king, at his wrath the earth shall
tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide
his threatening.
Thus then shall you say to them: The gods that have
not made heaven and earth, let them perish from the
earth, and from among those places that are under heaven.
He that maketh the earth by his power, that prepareth
the world by his wisdom, and stretcheth out the heavens
by his knowledge.
At his voice he giveth a multitude of waters in the
heaven, and lifteth up the clouds from the ends of the
earth: he maketh lightnings for rain, and bringeth for
the wind out of his treasures.
Every man is become a fool for knowledge every artist
is confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast
is false, and there is no spirit in them.
They are vain things and a ridiculous work: in the time
of their visitation they shall perish.
The portion of Jacob is not like these: for it is he
who formed all things: and Israel is the rod of his
inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.
Gather up thy shame out of the land, thou that dwellest
in a siege.
For thus saith the Lord: Behold I will cast away far
off the inhabitants of the land at this time: and I
will afflict them, so that they may be found.
Woe is me for my destruction, my wound is very grievous.
But I said: Truly this is my own evil, and I will bear
it.
My tabernacle is laid waste, all my cords are broken:
my children are gone out from me, and they are not:
there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and
to set up my curtains.
Because the pastors have done foolishly, and have not
sought the Lord: therefore have they not understood,
and all their flock is scattered.
Behold the sound of a noise cometh, a great commotion
out of the land of the north: to make the cities of
Juda a desert, and a dwelling for dragons.
I know, O Lord, that the way of a man is not his: neither
is it in a man to walk, and to direct his steps.
Correct me, O Lord, but yet with judgement: and not
in fury, lest thou bring me to nothing.
Pour out thy indignation upon the nations that have
not known thee, and upon the provinces that have not
called upon thy name: because they have eaten up Jacob,
and devoured him, and consumed him, and have destroyed
his glory. |
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