Hear <H8085> ye the word <H1697> which the LORD <H3068> speaketh <H1696> unto you, O house <H1004> of Israel: <H3478>
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Thus saith <H0559> the LORD, <H3068> Learn <H3925> not the way <H1870> of the heathen, <H1471> and be not dismayed <H2865> at the signs <H0226> of heaven; <H8064> for the heathen <H1471> are dismayed <H2865> at them. <H1992>
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For the customs <H2708> of the people <H5971> [are] vain: <H1892> for [one] cutteth <H3772> a tree <H6086> out of the forest, <H3293> the work <H4639> of the hands <H3027> of the workman, <H2796> with the axe. <H4621>
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They deck <H3302> it with silver <H3701> and with gold; <H2091> they fasten <H2388> it with nails <H4548> and with hammers, <H4717> that it move <H6328> not.
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They [are] upright <H4749> as the palm tree, <H8560> but speak <H1696> not: they must needs <H5375> be borne, <H5375> because they cannot go. <H6805> Be not afraid <H3372> of them; for they cannot do evil, <H7489> neither also [is it] in them to do good. <H3190>
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Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto thee, O LORD; <H3068> thou [art] great, <H1419> and thy name <H8034> [is] great <H1419> in might. <H1369>
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Who would not fear <H3372> thee, O King <H4428> of nations? <H1471> for to thee doth it appertain: <H2969> forasmuch as among all the wise <H2450> [men] of the nations, <H1471> and in all their kingdoms, <H4438> [there is] none like unto thee.
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But they are altogether <H0259> brutish <H1197> and foolish: <H3688> the stock <H6086> [is] a doctrine <H4148> of vanities. <H1892>
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Silver <H3701> spread into plates <H7554> is brought <H0935> from Tarshish, <H8659> and gold <H2091> from Uphaz, <H0210> the work <H4639> of the workman, <H2796> and of the hands <H3027> of the founder: <H6884> blue <H8504> and purple <H0713> [is] their clothing: <H3830> they [are] all the work <H4639> of cunning <H2450> [men].
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But the LORD <H3068> [is] the true <H0571> God, <H0430> he [is] the living <H2416> God, <H0430> and an everlasting <H5769> king: <H4428> at his wrath <H7110> the earth <H0776> shall tremble, <H7493> and the nations <H1471> shall not be able to abide <H3557> his indignation. <H2195>
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Thus <H1836> shall ye say <H0560> unto them, The gods <H0426> that have not <H3809> made <H5648> the heavens <H8065> and the earth, <H0778> [even] they shall perish <H0007> from the earth, <H0772> and from under <H8460> these <H0429> heavens. <H8065>
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He hath made <H6213> the earth <H0776> by his power, <H3581> he hath established <H3559> the world <H8398> by his wisdom, <H2451> and hath stretched out <H5186> the heavens <H8064> by his discretion. <H8394>
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When he uttereth <H5414> his voice, <H6963> [there is] a multitude <H1995> of waters <H4325> in the heavens, <H8064> and he causeth the vapours <H5387> to ascend <H5927> from the ends <H7097> of the earth; <H0776> he maketh <H6213> lightnings <H1300> with rain, <H4306> and bringeth forth <H3318> the wind <H7307> out of his treasures. <H0214>
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Every man <H0120> is brutish <H1197> in [his] knowledge: <H1847> every founder <H6884> is confounded <H3001> by the graven image: <H6459> for his molten image <H5262> [is] falsehood, <H8267> and [there is] no breath <H7307> in them.
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They [are] vanity, <H1892> [and] the work <H4639> of errors: <H8595> in the time <H6256> of their visitation <H6486> they shall perish. <H0006>
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The portion <H2506> of Jacob <H3290> [is] not like them: for he [is] the former <H3335> of all [things]; and Israel <H3478> [is] the rod <H7626> of his inheritance: <H5159> The LORD <H3068> of hosts <H6635> [is] his name. <H8034>
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Gather <H0622> up thy wares <H3666> out of the land, <H0776> O inhabitant <H3427> of the fortress. <H4692>
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For thus saith <H0559> the LORD, <H3068> Behold, I will sling out <H7049> the inhabitants <H3427> of the land <H0776> at this once, <H6471> and will distress <H6887> them, that they may find <H4672> [it so].
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Woe <H0188> is me for my hurt! <H7667> my wound <H4347> is grievous: <H2470> but I said, <H0559> Truly <H0389> this [is] a grief, <H2483> and I must bear <H5375> it.
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My tabernacle <H0168> is spoiled, <H7703> and all my cords <H4340> are broken: <H5423> my children <H1121> are gone forth <H3318> of me, and they [are] not: [there is] none to stretch forth <H5186> my tent <H0168> any more, and to set up <H6965> my curtains. <H3407>
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For the pastors <H7462> are become brutish, <H1197> and have not sought <H1875> the LORD: <H3068> therefore they shall not prosper, <H7919> and all their flocks <H4830> shall be scattered. <H6327>
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Behold, the noise <H6963> of the bruit <H8052> is come, <H0935> and a great <H1419> commotion <H7494> out of the north <H6828> country, <H0776> to make <H7760> the cities <H5892> of Judah <H3063> desolate, <H8077> [and] a den <H4583> of dragons. <H8577>
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O LORD, <H3068> I know <H3045> that the way <H1870> of man <H0120> [is] not in himself: [it is] not in man <H0376> that walketh <H1980> to direct <H3559> his steps. <H6806>
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O LORD, <H3068> correct <H3256> me, but with judgment; <H4941> not in thine anger, <H0639> lest thou bring me to nothing. <H4591>
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Pour out <H8210> thy fury <H2534> upon the heathen <H1471> that know <H3045> thee not, and upon the families <H4940> that call <H7121> not on thy name: <H8034> for they have eaten up <H0398> Jacob, <H3290> and devoured <H0398> him, and consumed <H3615> him, and have made his habitation <H5116> desolate. <H8074>