Jeremiah 10:6-10

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⁶ Lord, there is no one like you.
    You are great,
    and your name is great and powerful.
⁷ ·Everyone should respect [^LWho does not fear…?] you, King of the nations;
    ·you deserve respect [for it is your due].
Of all the wise people among the nations
    and in all the kingdoms,
    ·none of them is as wise as you [^Lthere is none like you].
⁸ Those wise people are stupid and foolish.
    Their ·teachings [instructions] come from ·worthless [meaningless; useless] ·wooden idols [^Lpieces of wood].
⁹ Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish [^CTarshish may have been in Spain (Tartessus) or an island in the eastern Mediterranean; Jonah 1:3]
    and gold from Uphaz [^Chigh quality],
so the idols are made by craftsmen and ·goldsmiths [smelters].
    They put blue and purple clothes on the idols.
    All these things are made by skilled workers.
¹⁰ But the Lord is the only true God.
    He is the only living God, the King forever.
The earth ·shakes [trembles] when he is angry,
    and the nations cannot ·stand up to [endure] his anger.