Jeremiah 10

Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel!

for the nations are dismayed at them.

the work of the hands of the workman with the ax.

so that it can’t move.

neither is it in them to do good.”

and your name is great in might.

there is no one like you.

It is just wood.

They are all the work of skillful men.

The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

“You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’ ”

and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.

and brings the wind out of his treasuries.

and there is no breath in them.

In the time of their visitation they will perish.

Yahweh of Armies is his name.

you who live under siege.

and will distress them, that they may feel it.”

“Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.”

to set up my curtains.

and all their flocks have scattered.

a dwelling place of jackals.

It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

lest you reduce me to nothing.

and have laid waste his habitation.