Revised Version 1885

Jeremiah 10:5-9 Revised Version 1885 (RV1885)

5. They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.

6. There is none like unto thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

7. Who would not fear thee, O King of the nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like unto thee.

8. But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols, it is but a stock.

9. There is silver beaten into plates which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of cunning men.