{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Jeremiah",
 "chapter": 10,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing."
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "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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