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    Kevin Warstler
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    Scripture:
    Jeremiah 10:1-11

  • Jeremiah 10:1–11

    Idols and the Living God

    10:1 Hear the word that the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel. 2 Thus says the LORD:

      “Learn not the way of the nations,
        nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens
        because the nations are dismayed at them,
    3   for the customs of the peoples are vanity.
      A tree from the forest is cut down
        and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
    4   They decorate it with silver and gold;
        they fasten it with hammer and nails
        so that it cannot move.
    5   Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
        and they cannot speak;
      they have to be carried,
        for they cannot walk.
      Do not be afraid of them,
        for they cannot do evil,
        neither is it in them to do good.”
    6   There is none like you, O LORD;
        you are great, and your name is great in might.
    7   Who would not fear you, O King of the nations?
        For this is your due;
      for among all the wise ones of the nations
        and in all their kingdoms
        there is none like you.
    8   They are both stupid and foolish;
        the instruction of idols is but wood!
    9   Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish,
        and gold from Uphaz.
      They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith;
        their clothing is violet and purple;
        they are all the work of skilled men.
    10   But the LORD is the true God;
        he is the living God and the everlasting King.
      At his wrath the earth quakes,
        and the nations cannot endure his indignation.

    11 Thus shall you say to them: “The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”