| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Thus says the LORD, "Do not learn the way of the nations, And do not be terrified by the signs of the heavens Although the nations are terrified by them; |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For the customs of the peoples are delusion; Because it is wood cut from the forest, The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"They decorate it with silver and with gold; They fasten it with nails and with hammers So that it will not totter. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they, And they cannot speak; They must be carried, Because they cannot walk! Do not fear them, For they can do no harm, Nor can they do any good." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6There is none like You, O LORD; You are great, and great is Your name in might. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? Indeed it is Your due! For among all the wise men of the nations And in all their kingdoms, There is none like You. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But they are altogether stupid and foolish In their discipline of delusion-- their idol is wood! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, And gold from Uphaz, The work of a craftsman and of the hands of a goldsmith; Violet and purple are their clothing; 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 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." |
| 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 He has 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 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. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Every man is stupid, devoid of knowledge; Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols; For his molten images are deceitful, And there is no breath in them. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15They are worthless, a work of mockery; In the time of their punishment they will perish. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The portion of Jacob is not like these; For the Maker of all is He, And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance; The LORD of hosts is His name. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Pick up your bundle from the ground, 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 will cause them distress, That they may be found." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Woe is me, because of my injury! My wound is incurable. But I said, "Truly this is a sickness, And I must bear it." |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20My tent is destroyed, And all my ropes are broken; My sons have gone from me and are no more. There is no one to stretch out my tent again Or to set up my curtains. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For the shepherds have become stupid And have not sought the LORD; Therefore they have not prospered, And all their flock is scattered. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22The 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. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23I know, O LORD, that a man's way is not in himself, Nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Correct me, O LORD, but with justice; Not with Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Pour 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. |
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