A Satire on Idolatry
1 Hear the word which the Lord speaks to you, O house of Israel.
2 Thus says the Lord,
“(A)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;
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And do not be terrified by the signs of the heavens
Although the nations are terrified by them;
11 (d)Thus you shall say to them, “The (X)gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will (Y)perish from the earth and from under the (e)heavens.”
18 For thus says the Lord,
Footnotes:
a.
Jeremiah 10:3: ['Lit ', vanity]
b.
Jeremiah 10:8: ['Lit ', vanities, ', or ', idols]
c.
Jeremiah 10:8: ['Lit ', it is]
d.
Jeremiah 10:11: ['This verse is in Aram']
e.
Jeremiah 10:11: ['Or ', these heavens]
f.
Jeremiah 10:14: ['Or ', graven image]
g.
Jeremiah 10:16: ['Lit ', Fashioner]
h.
Jeremiah 10:18: ['Lit ', find]
i.
Jeremiah 10:19: ['Lit ', breaking]
j.
Jeremiah 10:24: ['Lit ', diminish me]
k.
Jeremiah 10:25: ['Or ', pasture]
Cross references:
Z.
Jeremiah 10:12:
Genesis 1:1; Genesis 1:6; Job 38:4-7; Psalm 136:5; Psalm 148:4; Psalm 148:5; Jeremiah 51:15; Jeremiah 51:19
AQ.
Jeremiah 10:19:
Micah 7:9