Jeremiah · Geneva Bible (1599)
Jeremiah 10 Geneva Bible (1599)
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- Original 16th-century spelling.
1 Heare ye the worde of the Lord that he speaketh vnto you, O house of Israel.
1 Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel!
2 Thus saith the Lord, Learne not the way of the heathen, and be not afraid for the signes of heauen, though the heathen be afraid of such.
2 Yahweh says, “Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.
3 For the customes of the people are vaine: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest (which is the worke of the handes of the carpenter) with the axe,
3 For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the ax.
4 And another decketh it with siluer, and with golde: they fasten it with nailes, and hammers, that it fall not.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers, so that it can’t move.
5 The idoles stande vp as the palme tree, but speake not: they are borne because they cannot go feare them not, for they cannot do euill, neither can they do good.
5 They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don’t speak. They must be carried, because they can’t move. Don’t be afraid of them; for they can’t do evil, neither is it in them to do good.”
6 There is no one like you, Yahweh. You are great, and your name is great in might.
7◆ Who would not feare thee, O King of nations? for to thee appertaineth the dominion: for among all the wise men of the Gentiles, and in al their kingdomes there is none like thee.
7 Who shouldn’t fear you, King of the nations? For it belongs to you. Because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is no one like you.
8 But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.
9◆ Siluer plates are brought from Tarshish, and golde from Vphaz, for the worke of the workeman, and the handes of the founder: the blewe silke, and the purple is their clothing: all these things are made by cunning men.
9 There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the engraver and of the hands of the goldsmith. Their clothing is blue and purple. They are all the work of skillful men.
10◆ But the Lord is the God of trueth: he is the liuing God, and an euerlasting King: at his anger the earth shall tremble, and the nations cannot abide his wrath.
10 But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.
11 (Thus shall you say vnto them, The gods that haue not made the heauens and the earth, shall perish from the earth, and from vnder these heauens)
11 “You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’”
12 He hath made the earth by his power, and established the worlde by his wisedome, and hath stretched out the heauen by his discretion.
12 God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.
13 Hee giueth by his voyce the multitude of waters in the heauen, and he causeth the cloudes to ascend from the endes of the earth: he turneth lightnings to rayne, and bringeth forth the winde out of his treasures.
13 When he utters his voice, the waters in the heavens roar, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
14 Euery man is a beast by his owne knowledge: euery founder is confounded by the grauen image: for his melting is but falsehood, and there is no breath therein.
14 Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
15 They are vanitie, and the worke of errours: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
15 They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.
16 The portion of Iaakob is not like them: for he is the maker of all things, and Israel is the rodde of his inheritance: the Lord of hostes is his Name.
16 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance. Yahweh of Armies is his name.
17 Gather vp thy wares out of the land, O thou that dwellest in the strong place.
17 Gather up your wares out of the land, you who live under siege.
18 For thus sayth the Lord, Beholde, at this time I will throwe as with a sling the inhabitants of the lande, and will trouble them, and they shall finde it so.
18 For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it.”
19 Wo is me for my destruction, and my grieuous plague: but I thought, Yet it is my sorow, and I will beare it.
19 Woe is me because of my injury! My wound is serious; but I said, “Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.”
20 My tabernacle is destroyed, and all my coardes are broken: my children are gone from me, and are not: there is none to spread out my tent any more, and to set vp my curtaines.
20 My tent has been destroyed, and all my cords are broken. My children have gone away from me, and they are no more. There is no one to spread my tent any more, to set up my curtains.
21 For the Pastours are become beasts, and haue not sought the Lord: therefore haue they none vnderstanding: and all the flockes of their pastures are scattered.
21 For the shepherds have become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks have scattered.
22 Beholde, the noyse of the brute is come, and a great commotion out of the North countrey to make the cities of Iudah desolate, and a denne of dragons.
22 The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals.
23 O Lord, I knowe, that the way of man is not in himselfe, neyther is it in man to walke and to direct his steps.
23 Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
24 O Lord, correct mee, but with iudgement, not in thine anger, least thou bring mee to nothing.
24 Yahweh, correct me, but gently; not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing.
25 Powre out thy wrath vpon the heathen, that knowe thee not, and vpon the families that call not on thy Name: for they haue eaten vp Iaakob and deuoured him and consumed him, and haue made his habitation desolate.
25 Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
Cross references (25)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 13:15–17; Jeremiah 42:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; Hosea 4:1; Revelation 2:29
- 2 Leviticus 20:23; Leviticus 18:3; Luke 21:25–28; Ezekiel 20:32; Deuteronomy 12:30–31
- 3 1 Peter 1:18; Isaiah 44:9–20; Leviticus 18:30; Jeremiah 10:8; Romans 1:21
- 4 Isaiah 46:7; Isaiah 40:19–20; Isaiah 41:6–7; Isaiah 44:12; Psalm 115:4
- 5 Isaiah 46:7; 1 Corinthians 12:2; Psalm 115:5–8; Isaiah 41:23–24; 1 Corinthians 8:4
- 6 Psalm 96:4; Exodus 15:11; Psalm 48:1; Deuteronomy 33:26; Isaiah 12:6
- 7 Revelation 15:4; Psalm 22:28; Jeremiah 10:6; Psalm 89:6; Jeremiah 5:22
- 8 Jeremiah 10:14; Zechariah 10:2; Psalm 135:18; Psalm 115:8; Jeremiah 51:17–18
- 9 Psalm 115:4; Daniel 10:5; Isaiah 40:19; 1 Kings 10:22; Ezekiel 27:12
- 10 Deuteronomy 32:4; Isaiah 57:15; Nahum 1:6; Psalm 76:7; Psalm 104:32
- 11 Psalm 96:5; Isaiah 2:18; Jeremiah 51:18; Jeremiah 10:15; Lamentations 3:66
- 12 Genesis 1:1; Job 9:8; Proverbs 3:19; Isaiah 40:22; John 1:3
- 13 Psalm 135:7; Job 38:22; Psalm 18:13; Job 38:34–35; Psalm 29:3–10
- 14 Psalm 135:16–18; Psalm 115:4–8; Isaiah 46:7–8; Habakkuk 2:18–19; Isaiah 44:18–20
- 15 Isaiah 41:24; Jeremiah 14:22; Jeremiah 51:18; Jeremiah 8:12; Jonah 2:8
- 16 Deuteronomy 32:9; Jeremiah 32:18; Jeremiah 31:35; Psalm 119:57; Jeremiah 10:12
- 17 Ezekiel 12:3–12; Jeremiah 6:1; Micah 2:10; Matthew 24:15; Jeremiah 21:13
- 18 1 Samuel 25:29; Zechariah 1:6; Jeremiah 23:20; Deuteronomy 28:63–64; Jeremiah 15:1–2
- 19 Micah 7:9; Lamentations 3:18–21; Jeremiah 4:31; Lamentations 3:39–40; Jeremiah 14:17
- 20 Jeremiah 4:20; Jeremiah 31:15; Isaiah 54:2; Isaiah 49:20–22; Job 7:8
- 21 Jeremiah 12:10; Ezekiel 34:2–10; Jeremiah 23:1–2; Isaiah 56:10–12; Ezekiel 22:25–30
- 22 Jeremiah 9:11; Jeremiah 1:15; Malachi 1:3; Jeremiah 5:15; Jeremiah 6:22
- 23 Proverbs 20:24; Psalm 37:23; Proverbs 16:1; Psalm 119:116–117; Psalm 17:5
- 24 Psalm 38:1; Psalm 6:1; Jeremiah 30:11; Isaiah 40:23; Job 6:18
- 25 Psalm 79:6–7; Jeremiah 8:16; Job 18:21; Psalm 14:4; Zechariah 1:15
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
Why does my Bible say something different?
- Jeremiah: a shorter book in a different order
The Greek Septuagint of Jeremiah is markedly shorter than the Hebrew text and arranges the book differently: the oracles against the nations come in the middle, after 25:13, not at the end. Hebrew fragments from Qumran show that a shorter Hebrew form of Jeremiah really existed. Many scholars think Jeremiah circulated in two editions.
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Jeremiah also says the same: "The gods that have not made the heavens and earth, let them perish from the earth which is under the heaven." For, from the fact of his having subjoined their destruction, he shows them to be no gods at all.
This shall ye say to them, "The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from those that are under the heavens." He is not such a god: for our God is above all gods.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
He said, "The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, let them perish from the earth, and from under the heaven." He said not, The gods that have not made the heavens and earth, let them perish from the heaven and from the earth; because they never were in heaven: but what did he say?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)