Jeremiah 10
1 to hear: hear [obj] [the] word which to speak: speak LORD upon you house: household Israel
You people of Israel, listen to what Yahweh says:
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
“Do not act like the people of [other] nations act, and do not be terrified by strange/unusual things that you see in the sky, even though they cause the [people of other] nations to be terrified.
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 customs of the people [of other nations] are worthless. [For example], they cut down a tree in the forest. Then a [skilled] worker/craftsman [cuts a section of it and] uses his chisel to carve an idol from that section.
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
[Then] people decorate the idol with silver and gold. [Then] they fasten it securely with nails in order that it will not topple/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
[Then] the idol [stands there] like [SIM] a scarecrow in a field of cucumbers/melons! It cannot speak, and people must carry it, because it cannot walk. Do not be afraid of idols, because they cannot harm [anyone], and they cannot do [anything] good [to help anyone].”
6 from nothing like you LORD great: large you(m. s.) and great: large name your in/on/with might
Yahweh, there is no one like you. You [MTY] are great, and you are very 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
You are the king of all the nations! Everyone should [RHQ] revere you, because that is what you deserve. Among all the wise people on the earth and in all the kingdoms where they live, (there is no one like you./who can compare with you?)
8 and in/on/with one be brutish and be stupid discipline: instruction vanity tree: wood he/she/it
Those people who [think that they are] very wise [IRO] are stupid and foolish [DOU]. The idols that they worship are only made of wood! Those idols certainly cannot teach them anything.
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
People hammer into thin sheets silver from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz, and then they give those sheets of silver and gold to skilled workers/craftsmen to cover the idols. Then they put on those idols expensive purple robes that are made by skilled workers.
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 Yahweh is the [only] true God; he is the all-powerful God, the king [who rules] forever. When he is angry, [all] the earth shakes/quakes; and [the people of] the nations cannot endure [what he does] when he is angry [with them].
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
[You Israeli people], tell this to those people: “Those idols did not make the sky and the earth, and they will disappear from the earth.”
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
But [Yahweh] made the earth by his power; he established it [firmly] by his wisdom and stretched out the sky by his understanding.
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 *Q(K)*) lightning to/for rain to make and to come out: send spirit: breath from treasure his
When he speaks [loudly], there is thunder in the sky; he causes clouds to form over every part of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and releases the winds 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
People are senseless and know very little [HYP]; those who make idols are always disappointed because their idols do nothing for them. The images/statues that they make are not real [gods]; they are lifeless.
15 vanity they(masc.) deed: work delusion in/on/with time punishment their to perish
Idols are worthless; they deserve to be ridiculed; there will be a time when they [all] will be destroyed.
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
But the God whom we Israelis worship is not like those idols; he is the one who created everything [that exists]; we, the tribe/people of Israel, belong to him; he is the Commander of the armies of angels.
17 to gather from land: soil bundle your (to dwell *Q(K)*) in/on/with siege
[Yahweh says this to the people of Jerusalem]: “The army of your enemies surrounds your city, so gather up your possessions [and prepare] to leave the city.
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
I will soon throw you out of this land and cause you to experience great troubles, with the result that you will have severe pain (OR, none of you will be left here).”
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 replied, “It is as though] we have been [badly] wounded, and we are very grieved; [It is as though] we have a very serious illness, and we must endure the pain.
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
[It is as though] our [great] tent is destroyed; the ropes [that held it up] have been cut; our children have gone away from us and will not return; there are no people left to rebuild our great tent.
21 for be brutish [the] to pasture and [obj] LORD not to seek upon so not be prudent and all pasturing their to scatter
Our leaders [MET] no [longer] have any sense; they no [longer] ask Yahweh [to (guide them/tell them what to do)], so they will no [longer] prosper, and all those over whom they rule [MET] will be 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! [Our enemies’ armies] in the north are making a [very] big noise/commotion [as they march toward us]. The towns in Judah will be destroyed, [and they will become] a place where jackals/wolves 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
Yahweh, I know that no person controls what will happen to him; no one is able to direct the events that he will experience.
24 to discipline me LORD surely in/on/with justice not in/on/with face: anger your lest to diminish me
[So] correct/discipline us, but do it gently. Do not correct/punish us when you are angry, because we would die if you did that.
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
Punish [MTY] [all] the nations whose people do not acknowledge/say that you are God; punish all the nations whose people do not worship you, because they are completely destroying [DOU] [us people of] Israel and they are causing our land to soon be only a desert.
