{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/jeremiah/10","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T11:33:20.982Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Jeremiah","bookSlug":"jeremiah","chapter":10,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":9,"nextChapter":11,"totalChapters":52,"totalVerses":25},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Hear you the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel:"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Thus said 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."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For as much as there is none like to you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is great in might."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Who would not fear you, O King of nations? for to you does it appertain: for as much as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like to you."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Thus shall you say to them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by his discretion."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"When he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning with rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasures."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Gather up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For thus said 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."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walks to direct his steps."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Pour out your fury on the heathen that know you not, and on the families that call not on your name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate."}],"citation":{"inline":"Jeremiah 10 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Jeremiah 10](https://primebible.com/akjv/jeremiah/10)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/jeremiah/10 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}