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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Hear what the LORD says to you, people of Israel. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2This is what the LORD says: "Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the heavens, though the nations are terrified by them. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For the practices of the peoples are worthless; they cut a tree out of the forest, and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so it will not totter. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field, their idols cannot speak; they must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them; they can do no harm nor can they do any good." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6No one is like you, LORD; you are great, and your name is mighty in power. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Who should not fear you, King of the nations? This is your due. Among all the wise leaders of the nations and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8They are all senseless and foolish; they are taught by worthless wooden idols. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz. What the craftsman and goldsmith have made is then dressed in blue and purple-- all made by skilled workers. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King. When he is angry, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure his wrath. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Tell them this: 'These gods, who 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] | 12But God made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by his idols. The images he makes are a fraud; they have no breath in them. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15They are worthless, the objects of mockery; when their judgment comes, they will perish. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He who is the Portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the Maker of all things, including Israel, the people of his inheritance-- the LORD Almighty is his name. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Gather up your belongings to leave the land, you who live under siege. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18For this is what the LORD says: "At this time I will hurl out those who live in this land; I will bring distress on them so that they may be captured." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Woe to me because of my injury! My wound is incurable! Yet I said to myself, "This is my sickness, and I must endure it." |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20My tent is destroyed; all its ropes are snapped. My children are gone from me and are no more; no one is left now to pitch my tent or to set up my shelter. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The shepherds are senseless and do not inquire of the LORD; so they do not prosper and all their flock is scattered. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Listen! The report is coming-- a great commotion from the land of the north! It will make the towns of Judah desolate, a haunt of jackals. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23LORD, I know that people's lives are not their own; it is not for them to direct their steps. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Discipline me, LORD, but only in due measure-- not in your anger, or you will reduce me to nothing. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the peoples who do not call on your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him completely and destroyed his homeland. |
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