Jeremiah 10

1Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel!Cross-references: 1Ki 22:19 · Ps 50:7 · Isa 1:10 · Isa 28:14 · Jer 2:4 · Jer 13:15 · +6 more

2Yahweh says, “Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.Cross-references: Lev 18:3 · Lev 20:23 · Deut 12:30 · Isa 47:12 · Ezek 20:32 · Luke 21:25

3For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the ax.Cross-references: Lev 18:30 · 1Ki 18:26 · Isa 40:19 · Isa 44:9 · Isa 45:20 · Jer 2:5 · +6 more

4They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers, so that it can’t move.Cross-references: Ps 115:4 · Ps 135:15 · Isa 40:19 · Isa 41:6 · Isa 44:12 · Isa 46:7

5They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don’t speak. They must be carried, because they can’t move. Don’t be afraid of them; for they can’t do evil, neither is it in them to do good.”Cross-references: Ps 115:5 · Ps 135:16 · Isa 41:23 · Isa 44:9 · Isa 45:20 · Isa 46:1 · +5 more

6There is no one like you, Yahweh. You are great, and your name is great in might.Cross-references: Ex 8:10 · Ex 9:14 · Ex 15:11 · Deut 32:31 · Deut 33:26 · 2Sam 7:22 · +18 more

7Who shouldn’t fear you, King of the nations? For it belongs to you. Because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is no one like you.Cross-references: Job 37:23 · Ps 22:28 · Ps 72:11 · Ps 76:7 · Ps 86:9 · Ps 89:6 · +8 more

8But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.Cross-references: Ps 115:8 · Ps 135:18 · Isa 41:29 · Isa 44:19 · Jer 2:27 · Jer 4:22 · +6 more

9There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the engraver and of the hands of the goldsmith. Their clothing is blue and purple. They are all the work of skillful men.Cross-references: 1Ki 10:22 · Ps 115:4 · Isa 40:19 · Ezek 27:12 · Dan 10:5

10But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.Cross-references: Deut 5:26 · Deut 32:4 · Judg 5:4 · 1Sam 17:26 · 1Sam 17:36 · 1Ki 18:39 · +43 more

11“You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’”Cross-references: Ps 96:5 · Isa 2:18 · Jer 10:15 · Jer 51:18 · Lam 3:66 · Zeph 2:11 · +2 more

12God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.Cross-references: Gen 1:1 · Gen 1:6 · Job 9:8 · Job 26:7 · Job 38:4 · Ps 24:2 · +24 more

13When he utters his voice, the waters in the heavens roar, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.Cross-references: Ex 9:23 · 1Sam 12:17 · 1Ki 18:41 · 1Ki 18:45 · Job 36:27 · Job 37:2 · +10 more

14Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.Cross-references: Ps 14:2 · Ps 92:6 · Ps 94:8 · Ps 97:7 · Ps 115:4 · Ps 135:16 · +10 more

15They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.Cross-references: Deut 32:21 · 1Sam 12:21 · Isa 2:18 · Isa 41:24 · Isa 41:29 · Jer 8:12 · +9 more

16The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance. Yahweh of Armies is his name.Cross-references: Ex 19:5 · Deut 32:9 · Ps 16:5 · Ps 73:26 · Ps 74:2 · Ps 119:57 · +14 more

17Gather up your wares out of the land, you who live under siege.Cross-references: Jer 6:1 · Jer 21:13 · Ezek 12:3 · Mic 2:10 · Matt 24:15

18For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it.”Cross-references: Deut 28:63 · 1Sam 25:29 · Jer 15:1 · Jer 16:13 · Jer 23:20 · Ezek 6:10 · +1 more

19Woe is me because of my injury! My wound is serious; but I said, “Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.”Cross-references: Ps 39:9 · Ps 77:10 · Isa 8:17 · Jer 4:19 · Jer 4:31 · Jer 8:21 · +10 more

20My tent has been destroyed, and all my cords are broken. My children have gone away from me, and they are no more. There is no one to spread my tent any more, to set up my curtains.Cross-references: Job 7:8 · Prov 12:7 · Isa 49:20 · Isa 51:16 · Isa 54:2 · Jer 4:20 · +3 more

21For the shepherds have become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks have scattered.Cross-references: Isa 56:10 · Jer 2:8 · Jer 5:31 · Jer 8:9 · Jer 10:8 · Jer 10:14 · +11 more

22The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals.Cross-references: Jer 1:15 · Jer 4:6 · Jer 5:15 · Jer 6:1 · Jer 6:22 · Jer 9:11 · +2 more

23Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.Cross-references: Ps 17:5 · Ps 37:23 · Ps 119:116 · Prov 16:1 · Prov 20:24

24Yahweh, correct me, but gently; not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing.Cross-references: Job 6:18 · Ps 6:1 · Ps 38:1 · Isa 40:23 · Isa 41:11 · Jer 30:11 · +1 more

25Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.Cross-references: Job 18:21 · Ps 14:4 · Ps 27:2 · Ps 79:6 · Isa 43:22 · Isa 64:7 · +16 more