1Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2Thus saith the Lord,
3For the customs of the people are vain:
4They deck it with silver and with gold;
5They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not:
6Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord;
7Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain:
8But they are altogether brutish and foolish:
9Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish,
10But the Lord is the true God,
11Thus 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.
12He hath made the earth by his power,
13When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens,
14Every man is brutish in his knowledge:
15They are vanity, and the work of errors:
16The portion of Jacob is not like them:
17Gather up thy wares out of the land,
18For thus saith the Lord,
19Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous:
20My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken:
21For the pastors are become brutish,
22Behold, the noise of the bruit is come,
23O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself:
24O Lord, correct me, but with judgment;
25Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not,