1 Listen, House of Israel, to the word that Yahweh addresses to you. Yahweh says this:
2 'Do not learn the ways of the nations or take alarm at the heavenly signs, alarmed though the nations may be at them.
3 Yes, the customs of the peoples are quite futile: wood, nothing more, cut out of a forest, worked with a blade by a carver's hand,
4 then embellished with silver and gold, then fastened with hammer and nails to keep it from moving.
5 Like scarecrows in a melon patch, they cannot talk, they have to be carried, since they cannot walk. Have no fear of them: they can do no harm -- nor any good either!'
6 Yahweh, there is no one like you, so great you are, so great your mighty name.
7 Who would not revere you, King of nations? Yes, this is your due. Since of all the wise among the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is not a single one like you.
8 All of them are brutish and stupid: the Futile Ones' teaching is but wood,
9 silver leaf imported from Tarshish and gold from Ophir, the work of carver or goldsmith; then dressed up in violet and purple, all the work of skilled men.
10 But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, the everlasting King. The earth quakes when he is wrathful, the nations cannot endure his fury.
11 'Tell them this, "The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth will vanish from the earth and from under these heavens." '
12 By his power he made the earth, by his wisdom set the world firm, but his discernment spread out the heavens.
13 When he thunders there is a roaring of waters in heaven; he raises clouds from the remotest parts of the earth, makes the lightning flash for the downpour, and brings the wind from his storehouse.
14 At this all people stand stupefied, uncomprehending, every goldsmith blushes for his idols; his castings are but delusion, with no breath in them.
15 They are futile, a laughable production; when the time comes for them to be punished, they will vanish.
16 The Heritage of Jacob is not like these, for he is the maker of everything, and Israel is the tribe that is his heritage. His name is Yahweh Sabaoth.
17 Pick up your pack from the ground, you the besieged!
18 For Yahweh says this, 'Now I shall throw out the inhabitants of the country, this time, and bring distress on them, so that they may find me!'
19 Disaster is on me! What a wound! My injury is incurable! And I used to think, 'If this is the worst, I can bear it!'
20 But now my tent is destroyed, all my ropes are snapped, my sons have left me and are no more; no one is left to put my tent up again or to hang the side-cloths.
21 The shepherds are the ones who have been stupid: they have not searched for Yahweh. This is why they have not prospered and why their whole flock has been dispersed.
22 Listen! A terrible noise! A mighty uproar from the land of the north to reduce the towns of Judah to desert, to a lair for jackals!
23 I know, Yahweh, no one's course is in his control, nor is it in anyone's power, as he goes his way, to guide his own steps.
24 Correct me, Yahweh, but with moderation, not in your anger, or you will reduce me to nothing.
25 Pour out your anger on the nations who do not acknowledge you, and on the families that do not call on your name, for they have devoured Jacob, have devoured and made an end of him and reduced his home to desolation.
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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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