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1 | Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of
Israel: |
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2 | Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be
not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are
dismayed at them. |
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3 | For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree
out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with
the axe. |
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4 | They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with
nails and with hammers, that it move not. |
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5 | They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must
needs 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. |
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6 | Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art
great, and thy name is great in might. |
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7 | Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth
it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the
nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto
thee. |
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8 | But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a
doctrine of vanities. |
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9 | Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold
from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the
founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the
work of cunning men. |
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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 abide his indignation. |
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11 | Thus shall ye 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. |
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12 | He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the
world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his
discretion. |
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13 | When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in
the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the
ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and
bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. |
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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. |
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15 | They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their
visitation they shall perish. |
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16 | The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of
all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD
of hosts is his name. |
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17 | Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the
fortress. |
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18 | For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the
inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them,
that they may find it so. |
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19 | Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly
this is a grief, and I must bear it. |
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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. |
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21 | For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the
LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks
shall be scattered. |
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22 | Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion
out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah
desolate, and a den of dragons. |
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23 | O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is
not in man that walketh to direct his steps. |
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24 | O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger,
lest thou bring me to nothing. |
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25 | Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and
upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have
eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have
made his habitation desolate. |
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