Jeremiah 10:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

Thus says Yahweh, "Don't learn the way of the nations, and don't be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.

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  • Lev 20:23 : 23 You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
  • Lev 18:3 : 3 You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived: and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes.
  • Deut 12:30-31 : 30 take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. 31 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God: for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.
  • Isa 47:12-14 : 12 Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail. 13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the things that shall come on you. 14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.
  • Ezek 20:32 : 32 and that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in that you say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
  • Luke 21:25-28 : 25 There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves; 26 men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 27 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near."

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  • 3For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

  • 1Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel!

  • Jer 2:10-12
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    10For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a thing.

    11Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

    12Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be you very desolate, says Yahweh.

  • 9When you are come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

  • 32and that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in that you say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

  • 19and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

  • Isa 8:11-12
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    11For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

    12Don't you say, "A conspiracy!" concerning all about which this people shall say, "A conspiracy!" neither fear their fear, nor be in dread [of it].

  • 14For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do.

  • 8They shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.

  • 30take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

  • 4You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.

  • 15Hear you, and give ear; don't be proud; for Yahweh has spoken.

  • 10For the stars of the sky and the constellations of it shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.

  • 35Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves of it roar; Yahweh of hosts is his name:

  • 11Thus shall you say to them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.

  • 13The Lord said, Because this people draw near [to me], and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught [them];

  • 16Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

  • 12and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

  • 7Don't be you like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.

  • 2and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.

  • 4Don't you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says Yahweh of hosts, 'Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.

  • 6For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled from the east, With those who practice divination like the Philistines, And they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.

  • 31"'Don't turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don't seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God.

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    34To this day they do after the former manner: they don't fear Yahweh, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

    35with whom Yahweh had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:

  • 7that you not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;

  • 10Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

  • 12and you shall know that I am Yahweh: for you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you.

  • 11get out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us."

  • 17Don't you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • 3and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of the sky, which I have not commanded;

  • 6and don't go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don't provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no harm.

  • 7This is what Yahweh of Hosts says: "Consider your ways.

  • 7of the gods of the peoples who are round about you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;

  • 10The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, And the stars withdraw their shining.

  • 6those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven't sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

  • 35But mixed themselves with the nations, And learned their works.

  • 18that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.

  • 3You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived: and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes.

  • 17Gather up your wares out of the land, you who abide in the siege.

  • 8For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Don't let your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you; neither listen you to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

  • 5For thus says Yahweh, Don't enter into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, says Yahweh, even loving kindness and tender mercies.

  • 29For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, And you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

  • 8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says Yahweh.

  • 21Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:

  • 5Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

  • 10Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's.