Jeremiah 10:2
Verse 2 of 25. The 10th of 52 chapters in Jeremiah, in The Major Prophets.
1Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2Thus 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.
3For 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.
4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5They 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.
6Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
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Jeremiah 10:2 in the World English Bible
The LORD 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.Read Jeremiah 10:2 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 10:2
The prophet Isaiah, when he prophesied of the captivity in Babylon, added warnings against idolatry and largely exposed the sottishness of idolaters, not only because the temptations in Babylon would be in danger of drawing the Jews there to idolatry, but because the afflictions in Babylon were designed to cure them of their idolatry.
Read Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 10:1–16: Solemn Charge to Israel; The Folly of Idolatry. (b. c. 606.)
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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.