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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and swear by false gods</span></span></span><span class="content"> burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, &#8220;We are safe&#8221;&#8212;safe to do all these detestable things? </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.7.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for my Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">While you were doing all these things, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I spoke to you again and again, but you did not listen; I called you, but you did not answer. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore, what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears my Name, the temple you trust in, the place I gave to you and your ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I will thrust you from my presence, just as I did all your fellow Israelites, the people of Ephraim.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.7.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;So do not pray for this people nor offer any plea or petition for them; do not plead with me, for I will not listen to you. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to arouse my anger. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But am I the one they are provoking? declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.7.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place&#8212;on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land&#8212;and it will burn and not be quenched.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.7.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Go ahead, add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For when I brought your ancestors out of Egypt and spoke to them, I did not just give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">but I gave them this command: Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in obedience to all I command you, that it may go well with you. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts. They went backward and not forward. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">From the time your ancestors left Egypt until now, day after day, again and again I sent you my servants the prophets. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.7.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But they did not listen to me or pay attention. They were stiff-necked and did more evil than their ancestors.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.7.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.7.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you; when you call to them, they will not answer. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.7.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Therefore say to them, &#8216;This is the nation that has not obeyed the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> its God or responded to correction. Truth has perished; it has vanished from their lips.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.7.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JER.7.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Cut off your hair and throw it away; take up a lament on the barren heights, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has rejected and abandoned this generation that is under his wrath.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Valley of Slaughter</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JER.7.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.7.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The people of Judah have done evil in my eyes, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my Name and have defiled it. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JER.7.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire&#8212;something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JER.7.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">So beware, the days are coming, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, when people will no longer call it Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter, for they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JER.7.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Then the carcasses of this people will become food for the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JER.7.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the land will become desolate.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="q1"><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2-26 is numbered 9:1-25.</span><span class="ft"> </span></span></span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Oh, that my head were a spring of water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.9.1"><span class="content">and my eyes a fountain of tears!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.9.1"><span class="content">I would weep day and night</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.9.1"><span class="content">for the slain of my people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.9.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Oh, that I had in the desert</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">a lodging place for travelers,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">so that I might leave my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">and go away from them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">for they are all adulterers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">a crowd of unfaithful people.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;They make ready their tongue</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">like a bow, to shoot lies;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">it is not by truth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">that they triumph</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">lies; / they are not valiant for truth</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">They go from one sin to another;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">they do not acknowledge me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Beware of your friends;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.9.4"><span class="content">do not trust anyone in your clan.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.9.4"><span class="content">For every one of them is a deceiver,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">a deceiving Jacob</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.9.4"><span class="content">and every friend a slanderer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.9.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Friend deceives friend,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.9.5"><span class="content">and no one speaks the truth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.9.5"><span class="content">They have taught their tongues to lie;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.9.5"><span class="content">they weary themselves with sinning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.9.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:6 </span><span class="ft">That is, Jeremiah (the Hebrew is singular)</span></span></span><span class="content"> live in the midst of deception;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.9.6"><span class="content">in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.9.6"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.9.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.9.7"><span class="content">&#8220;See, I will refine and test them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.9.7"><span class="content">for what else can I do</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.9.7"><span class="content">because of the sin of my people?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.9.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Their tongue is a deadly arrow;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.9.8"><span class="content">it speaks deceitfully.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.9.8"><span class="content">With their mouths they all speak cordially to their neighbors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.9.8"><span class="content">but in their hearts they set traps for them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.9.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Should I not punish them for this?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.9.9"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.9.9"><span class="content">&#8220;Should I not avenge myself</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.9.9"><span class="content">on such a nation as this?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.9.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.9.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I will weep and wail for the mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">They are desolate and untraveled,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">and the lowing of cattle is not heard.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">The birds have all fled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">and the animals are gone.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.9.11"><span class="content">a haunt of jackals;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.9.11"><span class="content">and I will lay waste the towns of Judah</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.9.11"><span class="content">so no one can live there.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.9.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Who is wise enough to understand this? Who has been instructed by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and can explain it? Why has the land been ruined and laid waste like a desert that no one can cross?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.9.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts; they have followed the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: &#8220;See, I will make this people eat bitter food and drink poisoned water. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will pursue them with the sword until I have made an end of them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.9.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.9.17"><span class="content">&#8220;Consider now! Call for the wailing women to come;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.9.17"><span class="content">send for the most skillful of them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.9.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Let them come quickly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.9.18"><span class="content">and wail over us</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.9.18"><span class="content">till our eyes overflow with tears</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.9.18"><span class="content">and water streams from our eyelids.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.9.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The sound of wailing is heard from Zion:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="content">&#8216;How ruined we are!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="content">How great is our shame!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="content">We must leave our land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="content">because our houses are in ruins.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Now, you women, hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.9.20"><span class="content">open your ears to the words of his mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.9.20"><span class="content">Teach your daughters how to wail;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.9.20"><span class="content">teach one another a lament.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.9.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Death has climbed in through our windows</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.9.21"><span class="content">and has entered our fortresses;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.9.21"><span class="content">it has removed the children from the streets</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.9.21"><span class="content">and the young men from the public squares.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.9.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Say, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> declares:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Dead bodies will lie</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="content">like dung on the open field,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="content">like cut grain behind the reaper,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="content">with no one to gather them.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">&#8220;Let not the wise boast of their wisdom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">or the strong boast of their strength</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">or the rich boast of their riches,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">but let the one who boasts boast about this:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">that they have the understanding to know me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who exercises kindness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">justice and righteousness on earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">for in these I delight,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;The days are coming,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the wilderness in distant places.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">wilderness and who clip the hair by their foreheads</span></span></span><span class="content"> For all these nations are really uncircumcised, and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to you, people of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.10.2"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not learn the ways of the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.10.2"><span class="content">or be terrified by signs in the heavens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.10.2"><span class="content">though the nations are terrified by them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.10.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For the practices of the peoples are worthless;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.10.3"><span class="content">they cut a tree out of the forest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.10.3"><span class="content">and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.10.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They adorn it with silver and gold;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.10.4"><span class="content">they fasten it with hammer and nails</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.10.4"><span class="content">so it will not totter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.10.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="content">their idols cannot speak;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="content">they must be carried</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="content">because they cannot walk.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="content">Do not fear them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="content">they can do no harm</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="content">nor can they do any good.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"></span></div>
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