Jeremiah 10
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Lutheran reading notes
In Jeremiah chapter 10, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of warnings of judgment, covenant unfaithfulness, and future restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
Jeremiah 10:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Jeremiah 10:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For 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. {customs...: Heb. statutes, or, ordinances are vanity}
Jeremiah 10:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Jeremiah 10:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They {are} upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also {is it} in them to do good.
Jeremiah 10:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Forasmuch as {there is} none like unto thee, O LORD; thou {art} great, and thy name {is} great in might.
Jeremiah 10:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise {men} of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, {there is} none like unto thee. {to...: or, it liketh thee}
Jeremiah 10:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock {is} a doctrine of vanities. {altogether: Heb. in one, or, at once}
Jeremiah 10:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple {is} their clothing: they {are} all the work of cunning {men}.
Jeremiah 10:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But the LORD {is} the true God, he {is} the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. {true...: Heb. God of truth} {living God: Heb. living Gods} {everlasting...: Heb. king of eternity}
Jeremiah 10:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, {even} they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
Jeremiah 10:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
Jeremiah 10:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When he uttereth his voice, {there is} a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. {multitude: or, noise} {with: or, for}
Jeremiah 10:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Every man is brutish in {his} knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image {is} falsehood, and {there is} no breath in them. {brutish in his knowledge: or, more brutish than to know}
Jeremiah 10:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They {are} vanity, {and} the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Jeremiah 10:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The 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.
Jeremiah 10:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress. {inhabitant: Heb. inhabitress}
Jeremiah 10:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find {it so}.
Jeremiah 10:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this {is} a grief, and I must bear it.
Jeremiah 10:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they {are} not: {there is} none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
Jeremiah 10:20 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
Jeremiah 10:21 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, {and} a den of dragons.
Jeremiah 10:22 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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O LORD, I know that the way of man {is} not in himself: {it is} not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Jeremiah 10:23 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. {bring...: Heb. diminish me}
Jeremiah 10:24 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Pour out thy fury upon the heathen 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.
Jeremiah 10:25 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.