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\c 10
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\v 1 “Hear the word that Yahweh is announcing to you, house of Israel.
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\q
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\v 2 Yahweh says this, 'Do not learn the ways of the nations,
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\q and do not be dismayed by the signs in the heavens, for the nations are dismayed by these.
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\q
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\v 3 For the customs of the peoples are worthless. For someone cuts a tree down in a forest;
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The hands of a craftsman do this with an axe.
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\q
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\v 4 Then they decorate it with silver and gold. They strengthen it with hammer and nails so it will not fall over.
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\q
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\v 5 These idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, for they can say nothing. They have to be carried, for they cannot take any steps at all.
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\q Do not fear them, for they cannot bring about evil, nor are they able to do anything good.'"
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\q
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\v 6 There is no one like you, Yahweh. You are great, and your name is great in power.
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\q
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\v 7 Who does not fear you, king of the nations? For this is what you deserve,
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\q for there is no one like you among all the wise men of the nations or all their royal kingdoms.
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\v 8 They are all the same, they are brutish and stupid, disciples of idols that are nothing but wood.
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\v 9 They bring hammered silver from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz made by artificers,
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\q the hands of refiners. Their clothes are blue and purple cloth. Their skillful men made all of these things.
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\q
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\v 10 But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God and eternal king.
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\q The earth quakes at his anger, and the nations cannot endure his anger.
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\q
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\v 11 You will speak to them like this, "The gods that did not make the heavens and earth
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\q will perish from the earth and from under these heavens."
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\q
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\v 12 The maker of earth in his power established dry land in his wisdom and spread the heavens in his understanding.
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\q
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\v 13 His voice makes the roar of waters in the heavens, and he brings up the mists from the ends of the earth.
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\q He makes lightning for the rain and sends out wind from his storehouse.
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\q
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\v 14 Every man has become ignorant, without knowledge. Every metalworker is put to shame by his idols.
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\q For his cast poured images are frauds; there is no life in them.
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\q
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\v 15 They are useless, the work of mockers; they will perish at the time of their punishment.
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\q
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\v 16 But God, the portion of Jacob, is not like these, for he is the molder of all things.
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\q Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; Yahweh of hosts is his name.
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\v 17 Gather your bundle and leave the land, you people who have been living under the siege.
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\v 18 For Yahweh says this, "See, I am about to throw the inhabitants of the land out this time.
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\q I will cause them distress, and they will find it to be so."
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\q
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\v 19 Woe to me! Because of my broken bones, my wound is infected.
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\q So I said, "Surely this is agony, but I must bear it."
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\q
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\v 20 My tent is devastated, and all of my tent cords are cut in two.
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\q They have taken my children away from me, so they no longer exist. There is no longer anyone to spread out my tent or to raise up my tent curtains.
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\v 21 For the shepherds have become stupid. They do not seek Yahweh.
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\q so they have no success; all their flocks are scattered.
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\v 22 The report of news has arrived, "See! It is coming! A great earthquake is coming from the land of the north
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\q To make the cities of Judah into ruins, hideouts for jackals."
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\v 23 I know, Yahweh, that a man’s path does not come from himself. No person walking directs his own steps.
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\q
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\v 24 Discipline me, Yahweh, with justice, but not in your anger, lest you destroy me.
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\v 25 Pour your fury on the nations that do not know you and on the families that do not call on your name.
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\q For they have devoured Jacob and consumed him so as to completely destroy him and demolish his habitation.
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