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Jeremiah 10:3

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Their religion is worthless! They chop down a tree, carve the wood into an idol,

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The idols of the nations are made of silver and gold.

to every survivor from every nation: “Gather around me! Learn how senseless it is to worship wooden idols or pray to helpless gods.

I will punish my people, because they are guilty of turning from me to worship idols.

Idols are worthless, and anyone who worships them is a fool!

Idols can't send rain, and showers don't fall by themselves. Only you control the rain, so we put our trust in you, the LORD our God.

Our LORD, you are the one who gives me strength and protects me like a fortress when I am in trouble. People will come to you from distant nations and say, “Our ancestors worshipped false and useless gods,

and I, the LORD, will speak. I was never unfair to your ancestors, but they left me and became worthless by following worthless idols.

When you pray, don't talk on and on as people do who don't know God. They think God likes to hear long prayers.

But you have seen and heard how this man Paul is upsetting a lot of people, not only in Ephesus, but almost everywhere in Asia. He claims that the gods we humans make are not really gods at all.

They know about God, but they don't honour him or even thank him. Their thoughts are useless, and their stupid minds are in the dark.

You were rescued from the useless way of life that you learnt from your ancestors. But you know that you were not rescued by such things as silver or gold that don't last for ever.




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