# Do not learn the ways of the nations

"Do not act like the other nations act"

# dismayed

worried or upset

# by the signs in the heavens

"by strange things in the sky"

# for the nations are dismayed by these

Here "the nations" refer to the people who live in them. This can be written in active form. Alternate translation: "for the people of the nations are afraid of the strange things they see in the sky" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])