Jeremiah 10 (NET)

Jeremiah 10:1¹You people of Israel, listen to what the Lord has to say to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 2:13Amos 7:16Hos 4:1Jer 13:15-17Jer 42:15Rev 2:29Isa 1:10Isa 28:14Jer 2:4Jer 22:2

Jeremiah 10:2²The Lord says: “Do not start following pagan religious practices. Do not be in awe of signs that occur in the sky even though the nations hold them in awe.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 20:23Lev 18:3Ezek 20:32Luke 21:25-28Deut 12:30-31Isa 47:12-14

Jeremiah 10:3³For the religion of these people is worthless. They cut down a tree in the forest, and a craftsman makes it into an idol with his tools.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 1:18Isa 44:9-20Lev 18:30Jer 10:8Rom 1:21Isa 45:20Matt 6:71 Kgs 18:26-28Hos 8:4-6Hab 2:18-19

Jeremiah 10:4⁴He decorates it with overlays of silver and gold. He uses hammer and nails to fasten it together so that it will not fall over.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 46:7Isa 40:19-20Isa 41:6-7Isa 44:12Ps 115:4Ps 135:15

Jeremiah 10:5⁵Such idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field. They cannot talk. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them because they cannot hurt you. And they do not have any power to help you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 46:71 Cor 12:2Isa 41:23-24Ps 115:5-81 Cor 8:4Hab 2:19Isa 46:1Ps 135:16-18Rev 13:14-15Isa 44:9-10

Jeremiah 10:6⁶I said, “There is no one like you, Lord. You are great, and you are renowned for your power.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 15:11Ps 96:4Ps 48:1Deut 33:26Isa 12:6Ps 145:32 Sam 7:22Dan 4:3Ps 147:5Exod 8:10

Jeremiah 10:7⁷Everyone should revere you, O King of all nations, because you deserve to be revered. For there is no one like you among any of the wise people of the nations nor among any of their kings.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 15:4Ps 22:281 Cor 1:19-20Jer 10:6Jer 5:22Ps 89:6Isa 2:4Job 37:23-24Luke 12:5Ps 72:11

Jeremiah 10:8⁸The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 10:14Zech 10:2Hab 2:18Isa 41:29Jer 51:17-18Ps 115:8Ps 135:18Rom 1:21-22Isa 44:19Jer 2:27

Jeremiah 10:9⁹Hammered-out silver is brought from Tarshish and gold is brought from Ufaz to cover those idols. They are the handiwork of carpenters and goldsmiths. They are clothed in blue and purple clothes. They are all made by skillful workers.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 115:4Dan 10:51 Kgs 10:22Isa 40:19Ezek 27:12

Jeremiah 10:10¹⁰The Lord is the only true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. When he shows his anger the earth shakes. None of the nations can stand up to his fury.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 32:4Isa 57:15Nah 1:6Ps 76:7Ps 104:32Ps 18:7Ps 31:5Ps 42:21 John 5:201 Kgs 18:39

Jeremiah 10:11¹¹You people of Israel should tell those nations this: ‘These gods did not make heaven and earth. They will disappear from the earth and from under the heavens.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 96:5Isa 2:18Jer 10:15Jer 51:18Lam 3:66Zech 13:2Zeph 2:11Rev 20:2

Jeremiah 10:12¹²The Lord is the one who by his power made the earth. He is the one who by his wisdom established the world. And by his understanding he spread out the skies.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 1:1Job 9:8Prov 3:19Isa 40:22Col 1:16John 1:3Ps 24:2Isa 42:5Isa 44:24Isa 45:12

Jeremiah 10:13¹³When his voice thunders, the heavenly ocean roars. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 135:7Job 38:22Job 38:34-35Ps 18:131 Kgs 18:411 Kgs 18:45-461 Sam 12:17-18Exod 9:23Job 36:27-33Job 37:2-5

Jeremiah 10:14¹⁴All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 135:16-18Ps 115:4-8Isa 46:7-8Hab 2:18-19Isa 44:18-20Rom 1:22-23Jer 51:17-18Isa 42:17Jer 10:8Isa 45:16

Jeremiah 10:15¹⁵They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 41:24Jer 14:22Jer 51:18Isa 2:18-21Jer 8:12Jer 8:19Jonah 2:8Zech 13:21 Sam 12:21Acts 14:15

Jeremiah 10:16¹⁶The Lord, who is the inheritance of Jacob’s descendants, is not like them. He is the one who created everything. And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own. His name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 32:9Jer 32:18Jer 31:35Jer 10:12Jer 51:19Ps 119:57Ps 74:2Lam 3:24Ps 135:4Exod 19:5

Jeremiah 10:17¹⁷“Gather your belongings together and prepare to leave the land, you people of Jerusalem who are being besieged.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 12:3-12Jer 6:1Matt 24:15Mic 2:10Jer 21:13

Jeremiah 10:18¹⁸For the Lord says, ‘I will now throw out those who live in this land. I will bring so much trouble on them that they will actually feel it.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 25:29Zech 1:6Deut 28:63-64Ezek 6:10Jer 15:1-2Jer 16:13Jer 23:20

Jeremiah 10:19¹⁹And I cried out, ‘We are doomed! Our wound is severe!’ We once thought, ‘This is only an illness. And we will be able to bear it.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mic 7:9Jer 14:17Jer 4:31Lam 3:18-21Lam 3:39-40Isa 8:17Jer 17:13Jer 4:19Jer 8:21Jer 9:1

Jeremiah 10:20²⁰But our tents have been destroyed. The ropes that held them in place have been ripped apart. Our children are gone and are not coming back. There is no survivor to put our tents back up, no one left to hang their tent curtains in place.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 4:20Jer 31:15Isa 49:20-22Isa 54:2Isa 51:16Job 7:8Lam 1:5Lam 2:4-6Prov 12:7

Jeremiah 10:21²¹For our leaders are stupid. They have not sought the Lord ’s advice. So they do not act wisely, and the people they are responsible for have all been scattered.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 34:2-10Jer 12:10Jer 23:1-2Isa 56:10-12Ezek 22:25-30Ezek 34:12Jer 10:8Jer 2:8Jer 23:9-32Jer 8:9

Jeremiah 10:22²²Listen! News is coming even now. The rumble of a great army is heard approaching from a land in the north. It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble, places where only jackals live.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 9:11Hab 1:6-9Jer 1:15Jer 4:6Jer 5:15Jer 6:1Jer 6:22Mal 1:3

Jeremiah 10:23²³Lord, we know that people do not control their own destiny. It is not in their power to determine what will happen to them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 20:24Prov 16:1Ps 37:23Ps 119:116-117Ps 17:5

Jeremiah 10:24²⁴Correct us, Lord, but only in due measure. Do not punish us in anger or you will reduce us to nothing.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 38:1Ps 6:1Jer 30:11Isa 40:23Job 6:18Hab 3:2Isa 41:11-12

Jeremiah 10:25²⁵Vent your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you. Vent it on the peoples who do not worship you. For they have destroyed the people of Jacob. They have completely destroyed them and left their homeland in utter ruin.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 79:6-7Jer 8:16Job 18:21Ps 14:41 Thess 4:52 Thess 1:8Ezek 25:6-8Jer 50:17Jer 50:7Obad 1:10-16