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.[ † ]Leviticus 18:3Leviticus 20:23Deuteronomy 12:30 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.[ † ]Isaiah 40:19Isaiah 45:20 4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.[ † ]Isaiah 41:7 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.[ † ]Psalms 115:5Isaiah 46:7Jeremiah 10:51 Corinthians 12:2Psalms 115:7Isaiah 46:1-7Isaiah 41:23-24
6Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord ; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.[ † ]Exodus 15:11Deuteronomy 33:26Psalms 86:8-10Isaiah 46:5-9Jeremiah 10:16 7Who 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.[ † ]Jeremiah 5:22Revelation 15:4Psalms 89:6 8But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.[ † ]Psalms 115:8Habakkuk 2:18 9Silver 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 .[ † ]Daniel 10:5Psalms 115:4 10But 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.[ † ]1 Timothy 6:17Psalms 10:16
11Thus 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.[ † ]Psalms 96:5Isaiah 2:18Zephaniah 2:11
12He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.[ † ]Genesis 1:1-6, 7Jeremiah 51:15Psalms 93:1Job 9:8Psalms 104:2Isaiah 40:22 13When 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.[ † ]Job 38:34Psalms 135:7 14Every 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.[ † ]Jeremiah 51:17Proverbs 30:2Isaiah 42:17Isaiah 44:11Habakkuk 2:18 15They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. 16The 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.[ † ]Psalms 16:5Jeremiah 51:19Lamentations 3:24Deuteronomy 32:9Psalms 74:2Isaiah 47:4
17Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.[ † ]Jeremiah 6:1 18For 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 .[ † ]1 Samuel 25:292 Chronicles 36:20Ezekiel 6:10
19Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.[ † ]Jeremiah 8:21Psalms 77:10Micah 7:9 20My 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.[ † ]Jeremiah 4:20Lamentations 2:4Jeremiah 31:15Lamentations 1:5 21For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the Lord : therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.[ † ]Jeremiah 23:2 22Behold, 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.[ † ]Jeremiah 5:15Jeremiah 9:11
23O Lord , I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.[ † ]Proverbs 16:1Proverbs 20:24 24O Lord , correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.[ † ]Psalms 6:1Psalms 38:1Jeremiah 30:11 25Pour 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.[ † ]Psalms 79:6-7Zephaniah 3:8Job 18:211 Thessalonians 4:52 Thessalonians 1:8Jeremiah 8:16