It looks like the topic for today is idolatry.
Verse 1 tells us that this message is directly from the Lord.
- Don't do what the other nations do.
- Don't be terrified by the signs of heaven (although the nations should be terrified of them.)
- Idols are made from wood and man's labor. How can the prophets believe in them.
- They have to decorate these idols
- and have to shore them up to keep them from tottering
- dumb like a scarecrow
- must be carried
- Do not fear them. They can do no harm.
- Nor can they do good!
In verse 6, the voice changes to speaking to the Lord, so I assume it's Jeremiah.
- None is like Thee.
- You are great and mighty.
- Fear is due to You
- the nations are stupid for following dumb idols
- Their idols are built with components by craftsmen
- You are the true God- living and everlasting
- His wrath quakes the earth and nations cannot endure His indignation.
In verse 11, the Lord gives Jeremiah a message for the nations worshiping idols. (Ryrie footnote states that this, verse 11, is the only verse in the book of Jeremiah written in Aramaic.)
- Your idols will perish
- He made heaven and earth by His power
- He established the world through His wisdom and understanding
- He's in control of everything, including the elements
- Conversely, men are stupid, as are their idols
Verse 19 begins the response of the weeping prophet, Jeremiah.
Woe is me, because of my injury!
My wound is incurable.
But I said, “Truly this is a sickness,
And I must bear it.” Jeremiah 10:19, NASB, biblegateway.com
- his tent is destroyed
- his sons are gone and can't help raise a tent (Jeremiah never married, so the "sons" has to be symbolic?)
- shepherds have become stupid and have not sought the Lord, so they haven't prospered.
- commotion from the North that will lead to desolation
I know, O Lord, that a man’s way is not in himself,
Nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps.
Correct me, O Lord, but with justice;
Not with Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing. Jeremiah 10: 23-24, NASB 95
He ends in verse 25 with a call for the Lord to pour out his wrath on the nations and the families that have not acknowledged the Lord and have devoured Jacob.