Jeremiah 10
1 to hear: hear [obj] [the] word which to speak: speak LORD upon you house: household Israel
Listen to the message the Lord is sending to you, people of Israel.
2 thus to say LORD to(wards) way: conduct [the] nation not to learn: learn and from sign: miraculous [the] heaven not to to be dismayed for to to be dismayed [the] nation from them
This is what the Lord says: Don't adopt the practices of other nations. Don't be terrified as they are by signs in the heavens that they interpret as predicting disaster.
3 for statute [the] people vanity he/she/it for tree from wood to cut: cut him deed: work hand artificer in/on/with axe
The religious beliefs of the peoples are pointless. They chop down a tree in the forest and a craftsman carves the wood with a tool to make an idol.
4 in/on/with silver: money and in/on/with gold be beautiful him in/on/with nail and in/on/with hammer to strengthen: hold them and not to reel
They decorate it with silver and gold, and nail it down with a hammer so it won't fall over.
5 like/as palm cucumber field they(masc.) and not to speak: speak to lift: bear to lift: bear for not to march not to fear from them for not be evil and also be good nothing with them
Just like a scarecrow in a field of cucumbers, their idols can't speak. They have to be carried around because they can't walk. You don't have to be afraid of them because they can't hurt you—and they can't do you any good either.
6 from nothing like you LORD great: large you(m. s.) and great: large name your in/on/with might
There's no one like you, Lord! You are so great! You are incredibly powerful!
7 who? not to fear: revere you king [the] nation for to/for you to befit for in/on/with all wise [the] nation and in/on/with all royalty their from nothing like you
Everyone should respect you, King of the nations. This is how you should be treated. There's no one like you among all the wise men of every nation and kingdom.
8 and in/on/with one be brutish and be stupid discipline: instruction vanity tree: wood he/she/it
Yet these “wise men” are completely foolish and stupid, because they think they can be taught by useless idols made of wood!
9 silver: money to beat from Tarshish to come (in): bring and gold from Uphaz deed: work artificer and hand to refine blue and purple clothing their deed: work wise all their
Sheets of hammered silver are shipped in from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, to be used by craftsmen and metalworkers. These idols are dressed in clothes of blue and purple made by experts.
10 and LORD God truth: faithful he/she/it God alive and king forever: enduring from wrath his to shake [the] land: country/planet and not to sustain nation indignation his
But the Lord is the only true God. He is the living God and eternal King. The earth shakes when he is angry; the nations can't withstand his fury.
11 like/as this to say to/for them god [the] that heaven [the] and earth [the] not to make to destroy from earth: planet [the] and from under heaven [the] these
This is what you are to tell the nations: “These gods, who didn't make either the heavens or the earth, will be wiped out from this earth and from under these heavens.”
12 to make land: country/planet in/on/with strength his to establish: make world in/on/with wisdom his and in/on/with understanding his to stretch heaven
It was God who made the earth by his power. He created the world by his wisdom and by his understanding he put the heavens in place.
13 to/for voice to give: cry out he crowd water in/on/with heaven and to ascend: rise mist from end ([the] land: country/planet *QK) lightning to/for rain to make and to come out: send spirit: breath from treasure his
The waters of the heavens rain down with a roar at his command. He makes the clouds to rise all over the earth. He makes lightning to accompany rain, and sends the wind from his storehouses.
14 be brutish all man from knowledge to wither all to refine from idol for deception drink offering his and not spirit: breath in/on/with them
Everyone is stupid; they don't know anything. Every metalworker is embarrassed by the idols they make. For their images made of molten metal are fraudulent—they're not alive!
15 vanity they(masc.) deed: work delusion in/on/with time punishment their to perish
They are useless, an object to be laughed at. They will be destroyed at the time of their punishment.
16 not like/as these portion Jacob for to form: formed [the] all he/she/it and Israel tribe inheritance his LORD Hosts name his
The God of Jacob is not like these idols, for he is the Creator of everything, and Israel is the tribe that belongs to him. The Lord Almighty is his name.
17 to gather from land: soil bundle your (to dwell *Qk) in/on/with siege
You people living in Jerusalem under siege, get all your things together ready to leave,
18 for thus to say LORD look! I to sling [obj] to dwell [the] land: country/planet in/on/with beat [the] this and to constrain to/for them because to find
because this is what the Lord says: Look! Right now I'm about to throw out the people living in this country, bringing them trouble they will really feel.
19 woe! to/for me upon breaking my be weak: grieved wound my and I to say surely this sickness and to lift: bear him
The people of Jerusalem responded, “We're suffering terribly because we've been badly hurt—our injuries are really serious. We thought it wouldn't be that bad and that we could bear it.
20 tent my to ruin and all cord my to tear son: child my to come out: come me and nothing they nothing to stretch still tent my and to arise: establish curtain my
Our tents have been destroyed; all our ropes have been broken. Our children have been taken from us and are no more. We don't have anyone left to put up our tents or hang our curtains.”
21 for be brutish [the] to pasture and [obj] LORD not to seek upon so not be prudent and all pasturing their to scatter
The “shepherds” have become stupid—they don't ask the Lord for advice. That's why they have failed, and all their flock has been scattered.
22 voice tidings behold to come (in): come and quaking great: large from land: country/planet north to/for to set: make [obj] city Judah devastation habitation jackal
Listen to the news that an noisy army is invading from a country to the north. The towns of Judah will be knocked down, they will be places where only jackals live.
23 to know LORD for not to/for man way: conduct his not to/for man to go: walk and to establish: prepare [obj] step his
I realize, Lord, that people don't control their own lives—no one really knows how to choose their way.
24 to discipline me LORD surely in/on/with justice not in/on/with face: anger your lest to diminish me
Please discipline me fairly, Lord—not while you're angry, otherwise you'll kill me!
25 to pour: pour rage your upon [the] nation which not to know you and upon family which in/on/with name your not to call: call to for to eat [obj] Jacob and to eat him and to end: destroy him and [obj] pasture his be desolate: destroyed
Pour out your fury on the nations that don't recognize you as God, and on their families that don't worship you. For they have completely destroyed the Israelites, wiping us out. They have devastated our country.
