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10.14 :Every man is proved to be brutish, without knowledge,
 * Every goldsmith is put to shame by the graven image,
 * His molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
 * They are vanity, a work of delusion;
 * In the time of their visitation they shall perish.
 * Not like these is the portion of Jacob;
 * For He is the former of all things,
 * And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance;
 * The of hosts is His name.


 * Gather up thy wares from the ground,
 * O thou that abidest in the siege.

For thus saith the : Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it.


 * Woe is me for my hurt!
 * My wound is grievous;
 * But I said: 'This is but a sickness,
 * And I must bear it.'
 * My tent 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.
 * For the shepherds are become brutish,
 * And have not inquired of the ;
 * Therefore they have not prospered,
 * And all their flocks are scattered.
 * Hark! a report, behold, it cometh,
 * And a great commotion out of the north country,
 * To make the cities of Judah desolate,
 * A dwelling-place of jackals.
 * O, I know that man's way is not his own;
 * It is not in man to direct his steps as he walketh.
 * O, correct me, but in measure;
 * Not in Thine anger, lest Thou diminish me.
 * Pour out Thy wrath upon the nations that know Thee not,
 * And upon the families that call not on Thy name;
 * For they have devoured Jacob,
 * Yea, they have devoured him and consumed him,
 * And have laid waste his habitation.

The word that came to Jeremiah from the, saying: 'Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and say thou unto them: Thus saith the , the God of Israel: Cursed be the man that heareth not the words of this covenant, which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying: Hearken to My voice, and do them, according to all which I command you; so shall ye be My people, and I will be your God; that I may establish the oath which I swore unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day.' Then answered I, and said: 'Amen, O .'

And the said unto me: 'Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them. For I earnestly forewarned your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, forewarning betimes and often, saying: Hearken to My voice.