Jeremiah 10:3-12
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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.