Jeremiah 10 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ Silver spread into plates is brought from Tharsis, and gold from Ophaz: the work of the artificer, and of the hand of the coppersmith: violet and purple is their clothing: all these things are the work of artificers.

² 0 But the Lord is the true God: he is the living God, and the everlasting king, at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his threatening.

³ 1 Thus then shall you say to them: The gods that have not made heaven and earth, let them perish from the earth, and from among those places that are under heaven.

⁴ 2 He that maketh the earth by his power, that prepareth the world by his wisdom, and stretcheth out the heavens by his knowledge.

⁵ 3 At his voice he giveth a multitude of waters in the heaven, and lifteth up the clouds from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings for rain, and bringeth for the wind out of his treasures.

⁶ 4 Every man is become a fool for knowledge every artist is confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there is no spirit in them.

⁷ 5 They are vain things and a ridiculous work: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

⁸ 6 The portion of Jacob is not like these: for it is he who formed all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.

⁹ 7 Gather up thy shame out of the land, thou that dwellest in a siege.

¹⁰ 8 For thus saith the Lord: Behold I will cast away far off the inhabitants of the land at this time: and I will afflict them, so that they may be found.

¹¹ 9 Woe is me for my destruction, my wound is very grievous. But I said: Truly this is my own evil, and I will bear it.

¹² 0 My tabernacle is laid waste, all my cords are broken: my children are gone out from me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

¹³ 1 Because the pastors have done foolishly, and have not sought the Lord: therefore have they not understood, and all their flock is scattered.

¹⁴ 2 Behold the sound of a noise cometh, a great commotion out of the land of the north: to make the cities of Juda a desert, and a dwelling for dragons.

¹⁵ 3 I know, O Lord, that the way of a man is not his: neither is it in a man to walk, and to direct his steps.

¹⁶ 4 Correct me, O Lord, but yet with judgement: and not in fury, lest thou bring me to nothing.

¹⁷ 5 Pour out thy indignation upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the provinces that have not called upon thy name: because they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have destroyed his glory.

¹⁸ The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias, saying:

¹⁹ Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

²⁰ And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Cursed is the man that shall not hearken to the words of yethis covenant,

²¹ Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying: Hear ye my voice, and do all things that I command you: and you shall be my people, and I will be your God:

²² That I may accomplish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. And I answered and said: Amen, O Lord.

²³ And the Lord said to me: Proclaim aloud all these words in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear ye the words of the covenant, and do them:

²⁴ For protesting I conjured your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt even to this day: rising early I conjured them, and said: Hearken ye to my voice:

²⁵ And they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear: but walked every one in the perverseness of his own wicked heart: and I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did them not.