Jeremiah 10

Geneva 1599Heare ye the worde of the Lord that he speaketh vnto you, O house of Israel.

Geneva 1599Thus saith the Lord, Learne not the way of the heathen, and be not afraid for the signes of heauen, though the heathen be afraid of such.

Geneva 1599For the customes of the people are vaine: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest (which is the worke of the handes of the carpenter) with the axe,

Geneva 1599And another decketh it with siluer, and with golde: they fasten it with nailes, and hammers, that it fall not.

Geneva 1599The idoles stande vp as the palme tree, but speake not: they are borne because they cannot go feare them not, for they cannot do euill, neither can they do good.

Geneva 1599There is none like vnto thee, O Lord: thou art great, and thy name is great in power.

Geneva 1599Who would not feare thee, O King of nations? for to thee appertaineth the dominion: for among all the wise men of the Gentiles, and in al their kingdomes there is none like thee.

Geneva 1599But, altogether they dote, and are foolish: for the stocke is a doctrine of vanitie.

Geneva 1599Siluer plates are brought from Tarshish, and golde from Vphaz, for the worke of the workeman, and the handes of the founder: the blewe silke, and the purple is their clothing: all these things are made by cunning men.

Geneva 1599But the Lord is the God of trueth: he is the liuing God, and an euerlasting King: at his anger the earth shall tremble, and the nations cannot abide his wrath.

Geneva 1599(Thus shall you say vnto them, The gods that haue not made the heauens and the earth, shall perish from the earth, and from vnder these heauens)

Geneva 1599He hath made the earth by his power, and established the worlde by his wisedome, and hath stretched out the heauen by his discretion.

Geneva 1599Hee giueth by his voyce the multitude of waters in the heauen, and he causeth the cloudes to ascend from the endes of the earth: he turneth lightnings to rayne, and bringeth forth the winde out of his treasures.

Geneva 1599Euery man is a beast by his owne knowledge: euery founder is confounded by the grauen image: for his melting is but falsehood, and there is no breath therein.

Geneva 1599They are vanitie, and the worke of errours: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Geneva 1599The portion of Iaakob is not like them: for he is the maker of all things, and Israel is the rodde of his inheritance: the Lord of hostes is his Name.

Geneva 1599Gather vp thy wares out of the land, O thou that dwellest in the strong place.

Geneva 1599For thus sayth the Lord, Beholde, at this time I will throwe as with a sling the inhabitants of the lande, and will trouble them, and they shall finde it so.

Geneva 1599Wo is me for my destruction, and my grieuous plague: but I thought, Yet it is my sorow, and I will beare it.

Geneva 1599My tabernacle is destroyed, and all my coardes are broken: my children are gone from me, and are not: there is none to spread out my tent any more, and to set vp my curtaines.

Geneva 1599For the Pastours are become beasts, and haue not sought the Lord: therefore haue they none vnderstanding: and all the flockes of their pastures are scattered.

Geneva 1599Beholde, the noyse of the brute is come, and a great commotion out of the North countrey to make the cities of Iudah desolate, and a denne of dragons.

Geneva 1599O Lord, I knowe, that the way of man is not in himselfe, neyther is it in man to walke and to direct his steps.

Geneva 1599O Lord, correct mee, but with iudgement, not in thine anger, least thou bring mee to nothing.

Geneva 1599Powre out thy wrath vpon the heathen, that knowe thee not, and vpon the families that call not on thy Name: for they haue eaten vp Iaakob and deuoured him and consumed him, and haue made his habitation desolate.