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New International Version NIV
1 Hear ye the word which Jehovah speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
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Hear what the LORD says to you, people of Israel.
2 thus saith Jehovah, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them.
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This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the heavens, though the nations are terrified by them.
3 For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
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For the practices of the peoples are worthless; they cut a tree out of the forest, and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
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They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so it will not totter.
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.
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Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field, their idols cannot speak; they must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them; they can do no harm nor can they do any good.”
6 There is none like unto thee, O Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
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No one is like you, LORD; you are great, and your name is mighty in power.
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