Jeremiah 10

Jeremiah 10:2

And be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

Be not foolishly superstitious, in observing those good or evil days, and fortunes, as they are called, which the vain heathen think to be notified in the stars, the signs of heaven: it is for those pagans, to be dismayed with the predictions of those dismal events.

Jeremiah 10:3

For the customs of the people are vain.

For, howsoever those nations, the Chaldees and Egyptians, carry a reputation of wisdom; yet sure their practices shew them to be vain and sottish.

Jeremiah 10:5

They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not.

They must be, such as they are carved, upright, as the palm tree; for they cannot bow themselves to alter their posture.

Jeremiah 10:14

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.

Every workman is brutish, while he so employs his skill, as to make a god to himself, by his own art: every founder, if he had but reason to consider it, must needs be confounded in himself at the sight of his own folly, in making that image which he will

Jeremiah 10:16

The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things.

But the true God, who is the portion and happy inheritance of Jacob, is not like to these dunghill deities: he is the maker of all things.

Jeremiah 10:17

Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.

Truss and pack up all thy precious commodities, O thou, that inhabitest not the villages only, but the strongest fortresses; and address thyself for thy flight or captivity.

Jeremiah 10:18

Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once.

Behold, I will suddenly and violently cast out the inhabitants of the land, as a stone out of a sling.

Jeremiah 10:19

Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

Woe is me, for that grievous case, wherein I am! my affliction is exceeding sore and unspeakable; but recollecting myself, at last I resolved, Surely, this is the mischief, that I have brought upon myself, and which is justly allotted unto me: I will therefore bear it, as I may, since I cannot avoid the undergoing of it.

Jeremiah 10:20

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.

My tent is spoiled; and those cords, wherewith it should be stretched forth, are broken in pieces; so as mine habitation is wasted: and my children, which should aid me, are carried away into captivity; and there is none, that may afford me any help to the settling of me again.

Jeremiah 10:21

For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD.

The spiritual leaders of my people are become brutish; being indeed the chief cause of this great desolation; and have not sought the Lord.

Jeremiah 10:24

O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

O Lord, correct me, but in a gracious moderation; not in the extreme rigour of thy justice; not, as we have deserved, in thy wrath and displeasure.