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The Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 10, Verse 6

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They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to do good.
King James Version
Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto thee, O LORD; thou [art] great, and thy name [is] great in might.
American Standard Version
There is none like unto thee, O Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
New English Translation
I said,“There is no one like you, LORD. You are great. And you are renowned for your power.
World English Bible
There is none like you, Yahweh; you are great, and your name is great in might.
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Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise [men] of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, [there is] none like unto thee.
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But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.
9
Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple [is] their clothing: they [are] all the work of cunning [men].
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But the LORD [is] the true God, he [is] the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
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Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
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He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
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When he uttereth his voice, [there is] a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
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Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.
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They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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The portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for he [is] the former of all [things]; and Israel [is] the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts [is] his name.