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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Hear the word that the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Thus 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3for 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They decorate it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so that it cannot move. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Their 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6There is none like you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is great in might. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Who 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Beaten 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Thus 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.” |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Not like these is he who is the portion of Jacob, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the LORD of hosts is his name. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Gather up your bundle from the ground, O you who dwell under siege! |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18For thus says the LORD: “Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress on them, that they may feel it.” |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is grievous. But I said, “Truly this is an affliction, and I must bear it.” |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken; my children have gone from me, and they are not; there is no one to spread my tent again and to set up my curtains. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For the shepherds are stupid and do not inquire of the LORD; therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22A voice, a rumor! Behold, it comes!— a great commotion out of the north country to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Correct me, O LORD, but in justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation. |
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