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Jeremiah 10:15

The Passion Translation

What they make is worthless—nothing but a joke! When Yahweh comes to punish them, they will perish.

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So trust in the Lord, all his people. For he is the only true hero, the wraparound God who is our shield!

But you are nothing at all! What have you ever accomplished? Whoever chooses to worship you is disgusting!

Look, all these gods are nothingness! What have they ever accomplished? Their metal images are nothing but empty wind and confusion!

I will denounce your presumed ‘righteousness’ and your ‘good works,’ so don’t trust in your idols to help you.

“Say to them: “ ‘The gods who did not create the heavens and the earth will be destroyed from the earth and from under the heavens.’ ”

What wisdom could they glean from a block of wood? They are foolish blockheads, one and all.

Can any of the false gods of foreign nations give us rain? Can the skies by themselves give showers? Only you can, O  Yahweh, our God! So, we place all our hope in you, for only you accomplish all these things.

But my people have forgotten me and burn incense to gods who are nothing, who make my people stumble in their ways. They no longer follow the ways of blessing they knew before but have followed paths that lead them nowhere.

“ ‘He will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt and burn up their gods or take them prisoner. He will fold up the land of Egypt as a shepherd folds his cloak over himself. Then he will leave victorious without anyone standing in his way.

“Tell the nations the news; proclaim it everywhere. Publicize it far and wide; make no secret of it, and declare: ‘Babylon has fallen! Her god Marduk is greatly humiliated, and his power is broken. Her idols are disgraced; her filthy images are shattered.’

They are worthless—nothing but a joke! When Yahweh comes to punish them, they will perish.

They have acted shamefully, and have committed abhorrent acts, yet they feel no shame. They don’t know how to blush. Surely, they will fall among the fallen, and stumble when I deal with them,” says Yahweh.

Listen! I hear my beloved people crying out in despair throughout the land: “Is Yahweh no longer in Zion? Is her King not dwelling within her?” “So why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images and with their foreign, phony gods?”

“People, what are you doing? We’re only weak human beings like everyone else. This is why we’ve come to tell you the good news, so that you would turn away from these worthless myths and turn to the living God. He is the Creator of all things: the earth, the heavens, the sea, and everything they contain.




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