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10:1  Hear you the word which the LORD speaks unto you, O house of Israel:
10:2  Thus says the LORD, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them.
10:3  For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
10:4  They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it moves not.
10:5  They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must 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.
10:6  Since as there is none like unto you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is great in might.
10:7  Who would not fear you, O King of nations? for to you is it due: since among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto you.
10:8  But they are altogether senseless and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.
10:9  Silver beaten into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman, and of the hands of the goldsmith: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of skillful men.
10:10  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 endure his indignation.
10:11  Thus shall you 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.
10:12  He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens at his discretion.
10:13  When he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings with rain, and brings forth the wind out of his storehouses.
10:14  Every man is senseless in his knowledge: every goldsmith is put to shame by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
10:15  They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their judgment they shall perish.
10:16  The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.
10:17  Gather up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
10:18  For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
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.
10:20  My tent is plundered, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent anymore, and to set up my curtains.
10:21  For the shepherds have become senseless, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
10:22  Behold, the noise of the report has come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of jackals.
10:23  O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
10:24  O LORD, correct me, but with justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
10:25  Pour out your fury upon the nations that know you not, and upon the families that call not on your name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.