Evening Reflection (QT)
Introduction.
In today’s reading, the prophet warns the people to avoid idolatry and points out the foolishness in worshiping other gods.
The reading concludes with a hymn of praise to God.
Reflection.
To what does Jeremiah compare idols (verse 5)? What do you think of this description? How does Jeremiah describe the LORD (verses 6, 7, 10)?
What do find most striking in Jeremiah’s comparison of false gods to the one true God?
Pray.
Holy God, LORD Almighty is your name.
There is no one like you, and I praise your great and powerful name.
You made everything, and you are the true and living God. May all I do and say this day bring honor and glory to you.
In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.
Jeremiah 10:1-16
Jeremiah 10:1
Hear the word the LORD speaks to you, house of Israel.
Jeremiah 10:2
Thus says the LORD: Do not learn the ways of the nations, and have no fear of the signs in the heavens, even though the nations fear them.
Jeremiah 10:3
For the carvings of the nations are nonentities, wood cut from the forest, Fashioned by artisans with the adze,
Jeremiah 10:4
adorned with silver and gold. With nails and hammers they are fastened, so they do not fall.
Jeremiah 10:5
Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they, they cannot speak; They must be carried about, for they cannot walk.
Do not fear them, they can do no harm, neither can they do good.
Jeremiah 10:6
No one is like you, LORD, you are great, great and mighty is your name.
Jeremiah 10:7
Who would not fear you, King of the nations, for it is your due! Among all the wisest of the nations, and in all their domains, there is none like you.
Jeremiah 10:8
One and all they are stupid and senseless, the instruction from nonentities—only wood!
Jeremiah 10:9
Silver plates brought from Tarshish, and gold from Ophir, The work of the artisan and the handiwork of the smelter, Clothed with violet and purple— all of them the work of skilled workers.
Jeremiah 10:10
The LORD is truly God, he is the living God, the eternal King, Before whose anger the earth quakes, whose wrath the nations cannot endure.
Jeremiah 10:11
Thus shall you say of them: The gods that did not make heaven and earth—let these perish from earth and from beneath heaven!
Jeremiah 10:12
The one who made the earth by his power, established the world by his wisdom, and by his skill stretched out the heavens.
Jeremiah 10:13
When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar, and he brings up clouds from the end of the earth, Makes lightning flash in the rain, and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
Jeremiah 10:14
Everyone is too stupid to know; every artisan is put to shame by his idol: He has molded a fraud, without breath of life.
Jeremiah 10:15
They are nothing, objects of ridicule; they will perish in their time of punishment.
Jeremiah 10:16
Jacob’s portion is nothing like them: for he is the maker of everything! Israel is his very own tribe, LORD of hosts is his name.
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