1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5 They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to do good.
6 Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto thee, O LORD; thou [art] great, and thy name [is] great in might.
7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise [men] of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, [there is] none like unto thee.
8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.
9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple [is] their clothing: they [are] all the work of cunning [men].
10 But the LORD [is] the true God, he [is] the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
13 When he uttereth his voice, [there is] a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
14 Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.
15 They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
16 The portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for he [is] the former of all [things]; and Israel [is] the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts [is] his name.
17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
18 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find [it so].
19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this [is] a grief, and I must bear it.
20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they [are] not: [there is] none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, [and] a den of dragons.
23 O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in himself: [it is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
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Jeremiah 10 is a chapter that deals with the sin of idolatry and the warning of the prophet to the people of Judah to move away from these practices and return to the true God. The verses selected below deal with this theme:
Psalm 115:4-8: "Their idols are silver and gold, work of man's hands. They have mouth, but they do not speak; they have eyes, but they do not see; they have ears, but they do not hear; they have nose, but they do not smell; they have; hands, but do not feel; they have feet, but they do not walk; no sound comes out of your throat. " This psalm describes the futility of idols, which are works at the hands of men and have no power or life.
Isaiah 44:9-20: This whole excerpt is a warning of the prophet Isaiah against idolatry and the construction of wood and metal images. He points to the contradiction of these practices, since men love an object they themselves created and has no power or life.
1 Corinthians 8:4-6: "How much, when eating from things sacrificed to idols, we know that the idol is nothing in the world and that there is only one God. In heaven wants upon the earth, as there are many gods and many gentlemen, but for us, there is only one God, the Father, whom are all things and to whom we live; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by which They are all things, and we also for him. " In this excerpt from Paul's letter to the Corinthians, he teaches that idols are nothing and that there is only a true God who is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 17:22-31: In this text, the apostle Paul tells the Athenians about the unknown God they worshiped, but who is in fact the creator God of all things. He points to the contradiction of worshiping idols and gods made by human hands, when the true God cannot be contained in material objects.
2 Corinthians 6:16-18: "What agreement is between the temple of God and the idols? For we are sanctuary of the living God, as He said: I will dwell and walk among them; I will be your God, and they will be mine People. Therefore, I came out of them, and separate, say the Lord; shall not touch impure things; and I will receive you, will be your Father, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the almighty Lord. " In this excerpt from Paul's letter to the Corinthians, he urges Christians to separate from idolatry and become sanctuaries of the living God.
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