Jeremiah 10:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!”
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“But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities <FI>is<Fi> the tree itself.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 10:8 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 115:8Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
- Psalms 135:18Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
- Isaiah 41:29See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
- Isaiah 44:19And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
- Jeremiah 2:27say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble they beg, ‘Rise up and save us!’
- Jeremiah 4:22“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
- Jeremiah 10:14Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
- Jeremiah 51:17Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
- Hosea 4:12My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.
- Habakkuk 2:18What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it— or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
- Zechariah 10:2For idols speak deceitand diviners see illusions;they tell false dreamsand offer empty comfort.Therefore the people wander like sheep,oppressed for lack of a shepherd.
- Romans 1:21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
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