10:1 Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel. |
10:2 Thus says the LORD, " Do not learn the way of the nations, And do not feel terrified by the signs of the heavens Although the nations have feared them; |
10:3 For the customs of the peoples appear as delusion; Because it resembles wood cut from the forest, The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool. |
10:4 "They decorate it with silver and with gold; They fasten it with nails and with hammers So that it will not totter. |
10:5 "Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field do they appear, And they cannot speak; They must carry them, Because they cannot walk! Do not fear them, For they can do no harm, Nor can they do any good." |
10:6 None compares to You, O LORD; We acknowledge You as great, and acknowledge Your name as great in might. |
10:7 Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? Indeed it will become Your due! For among all the wise men of the nations And in all their kingdoms, None can compare to You. |
10:8 But they seem altogether stupid and foolish In their discipline of delusion--their idol consists of wood! |
10:9 Beaten silver they bring from Tarshish, And gold from Uphaz, The work of a craftsman and of the hands of a goldsmith; Violet and purple appear their clothing; They all consist of the work of skilled men. |
10:10 But the LORD remains the true God; He we acknowledge as the living God and the everlasting King At His wrath the earth quakes, And the nations cannot endure His indignation. |
10:11 Thus you shall say to them, "The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under the heavens." |
10:12 He made the earth by His power, Who established the world by His wisdom; And by His understanding He has stretched out the heavens. |
10:13 When He utters His voice, we find a tumult of waters in the heavens, And He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain, And brings out the wind from His storehouses. |
10:14 Every man seems stupid, devoid of knowledge; Every goldsmith puts himself to shame by his idols; For his molten images we regard as deceitful, And we find no breath in them. |
10:15 They seem worthless, a work of mockery; In the time of their punishment they will perish. |
10:16 The portion of Jacob does not resemble these; For the Maker of all we acknowledge Him, And Israel we name as the tribe of His inheritance; The LORD of hosts we call His name. |
10:17 Pick up your bundle from the ground, You who dwell under siege! |
10:18 For thus says the LORD, "Behold, I sling out the inhabitants of the land At this time, And will cause them distress, That they may find themselves." |
10:19 Woe to me, because of my injury! My wound seems incurable But I said, "Truly this appears as a sickness, And I must bear it." |
10:20 My tent has become destroyed, And all my ropes break; My sons have gone from me and I find them no more I find no one to stretch out my tent again Or to set up my curtains. |
10:21 For the shepherds have become stupid And have not sought the LORD; Therefore they have not prospered, And all their flock has scattered. |
10:22 The sound of a report! Behold, it comes- A great commotion out of the land of the north- To make the cities of Judah A desolation, a haunt of jackals. |
10:23 I know, O LORD, that a man cannot find his way in himself, Nor does man walk to direct his steps. |
10:24 Correct me, O LORD, but with justice; Not with Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing. |
10:25 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You And on the families that do not call Your name; For they have devoured Jacob; They have devoured him and consumed him And have laid waste his habitation. |