{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "jeremiah", "chapter": 10 }, "data": { "n": 10, "bookSlug": "jeremiah", "bookCode": "JER", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "JER-10:1", "verseRef": "Jer.10.1", "text": "Hear ye the word which Jehovah speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:" },{ "n": 2, "refId": "JER-10:2", "verseRef": "Jer.10.2", "text": "thus saith Jehovah, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "JER-10:3", "verseRef": "Jer.10.3", "text": "For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "JER-10:4", "verseRef": "Jer.10.4", "text": "They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "JER-10:5", "verseRef": "Jer.10.5", "text": "They are like a palm-tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "JER-10:6", "verseRef": "Jer.10.6", "text": "There is none like unto thee, O Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "JER-10:7", "verseRef": "Jer.10.7", "text": "Who should not fear thee, O King of the nations? for to thee doth it appertain; forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like unto thee." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "JER-10:8", "verseRef": "Jer.10.8", "text": "But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "JER-10:9", "verseRef": "Jer.10.9", "text": "There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skilful men." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "JER-10:10", "verseRef": "Jer.10.10", "text": "But Jehovah is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "JER-10:11", "verseRef": "Jer.10.11", "text": "Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "JER-10:12", "verseRef": "Jer.10.12", "text": "He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens:" },{ "n": 13, "refId": "JER-10:13", "verseRef": "Jer.10.13", "text": "when he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "JER-10:14", "verseRef": "Jer.10.14", "text": "Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "JER-10:15", "verseRef": "Jer.10.15", "text": "They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "JER-10:16", "verseRef": "Jer.10.16", "text": "The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "JER-10:17", "verseRef": "Jer.10.17", "text": "Gather up thy wares out of the land, O thou that abidest in the siege." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "JER-10:18", "verseRef": "Jer.10.18", "text": "For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel [it]." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "JER-10:19", "verseRef": "Jer.10.19", "text": "Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "JER-10:20", "verseRef": "Jer.10.20", "text": "My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are not: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "JER-10:21", "verseRef": "Jer.10.21", "text": "For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Jehovah: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "JER-10:22", "verseRef": "Jer.10.22", "text": "The voice of tidings, behold, it cometh, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "JER-10:23", "verseRef": "Jer.10.23", "text": "O Jehovah, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "JER-10:24", "verseRef": "Jer.10.24", "text": "O Jehovah, correct me, but in measure: not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "JER-10:25", "verseRef": "Jer.10.25", "text": "Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/jeremiah/chapters/10", "book": "/v1/library/books/jeremiah/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/jeremiah/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }