1Heare ye the worde of the Lord that he speaketh vnto you, O house of Israel. 2Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them. 3For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it may not move. 5The idoles stande vp as the palme tree, but speake not: they are borne because they cannot go feare them not, for they cannot do euill, neither can they do good. 6Forasmuch as [there is] none like thee, O LORD; thou [art] great, and thy name [is] great in might. 7Who would not feare thee, O King of nations? For to thee appertaineth the dominion: for among all the wise men of the Gentiles, and in al their kingdomes there is none like thee. 8But they are altogether senseless and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities. 9Silver beaten into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman, and of the hands of the goldsmith: blue and purple [is] their clothing: they [are] all the work of skilful [men]. 10But the Lord is the God of trueth: he is the liuing God, and an euerlasting King: at his anger the earth shal tremble, and the nations cannot abide his wrath. 11Thus shall ye say to them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens. 12He hath made the earth by his power, and established the worlde by his wisedome, and hath stretched out the heauen by his discretion. 13Hee giueth by his voyce the multitude of waters in the heauen, and he causeth the cloudes to ascend from the endes of the earth: he turneth lightnings to rayne, and bringeth forth the winde out of his treasures. 14Every man is senseless in [his] knowledge: every goldsmith is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them. 15They are vanitie, and the worke of errours: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. 16The portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for he [is] the former of all [things]; and Israel [is] the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts [is] his name. 17Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress. 18For thus sayth the Lorde, Beholde, at this time I will throwe as with a sling the inhabitants of the lande, and will trouble them, and they shal finde it so. 19Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this [is] a grief, and I must bear it. 20My tabernacle is laid waste, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone from me, and they [are] not: [there is] none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. 21For the shepherds have become senseless, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered. 22Behold, the sound of a rumour is come, and a great commotion from the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, [and] a den of dragons. 23O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in himself: [it is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps. 24O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thy anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. 25Pour out thy fury upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.