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## Jeremiah 10:3-15 in Context (Verses 1–18 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/jeremiah/10/1) Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
 
 [2 ](/kjv/jeremiah/10/2) 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.
 
 [3 ](/kjv/jeremiah/10/3) 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.*
 
 [4 ](/kjv/jeremiah/10/4) They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
 
 [5 ](/kjv/jeremiah/10/5) 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.
 
 [6 ](/kjv/jeremiah/10/6) Forasmuch as *there is* none like unto thee, O LORD; thou *art* great, and thy name *is* great in might.
 
 [7 ](/kjv/jeremiah/10/7) 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.*
 
 [8 ](/kjv/jeremiah/10/8) But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock *is* a doctrine of vanities.*
 
 [9 ](/kjv/jeremiah/10/9) 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*.
 
 [10 ](/kjv/jeremiah/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 abide his indignation.***
 
 [11 ](/kjv/jeremiah/10/11) 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.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/jeremiah/10/12) 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.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/jeremiah/10/13) 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.**
 
 [14 ](/kjv/jeremiah/10/14) 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.*
 
 [15 ](/kjv/jeremiah/10/15) They *are* vanity, *and* the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/jeremiah/10/16) 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.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/jeremiah/10/17) ¶ Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.*
 
 [18 ](/kjv/jeremiah/10/18) 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*.
 
[Jeremiah 9](/kjv/jeremiah/9) [Jeremiah 11](/kjv/jeremiah/11)

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