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Jeremiah 10:13-15
New English Translation
Jeremiah 10:13-15
New English Translation
13 When his voice thunders,[a] the heavenly ocean roars.
He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons.[b]
He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain.
He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.[c]
14 All these idolaters[d] will prove to be stupid and ignorant.
Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made.
For the image he forges is merely a sham.[e]
There is no breath in any of those idols.[f]
15 They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked.[g]
When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 10:13 tn Heb “At the voice of his giving.” The idiom “to give the voice” is often used for thunder (cf. BDB 679 s.v. נָתַן Qal.1.x).
- Jeremiah 10:13 tn Heb “from the ends of the earth.”
- Jeremiah 10:13 tn Heb “he brings out the winds from his storehouses.”
- Jeremiah 10:14 tn Heb “Every man.” But in the context this is not a reference to all people without exception but to all idolaters. The referent is made explicit for the sake of clarity.
- Jeremiah 10:14 tn Or “nothing but a phony god”; Heb “a lie/falsehood.”
- Jeremiah 10:14 tn Heb “There is no breath in them.” The referent is made explicit so that no one will mistakenly take it to refer to the idolaters or goldsmiths.
- Jeremiah 10:15 tn Or “objects of mockery.”
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