Jeremiah 10:3 - The Scriptures 2009 “For the laws of these peoples are worthless, for one cuts a tree from the forest, work for the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For the customs and ordinances of the peoples are false, empty, and futile; it is but a tree which one cuts out of the forest [to make for himself a god], the work of the hands of the craftsman with the ax or other tool. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible The rituals of the nations are hollow: a tree from the forest is chopped down and shaped by the craftsman’s tools. Catholic Public Domain Version For the laws of the people are empty. For the work of the hand of the craftsman has cut a tree from the forest with an axe. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe. |
“Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. No knowledge have they who are lifting up the wood of their carved image, and pray to a mighty one that does not save.
“And I shall pronounce My judgments against them concerning all their evil, because they have forsaken Me, burned incense to other mighty ones, and bowed themselves to the works of their own hands.
They are both brutish and foolish, an instruction of worthlessness is the tree.
Are there among the worthless idols of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Are You not He, O יהוה our Elohim? And we wait for You, for You are the One who does all this.
O יהוה, my strength and my stronghold and my refuge, in the day of distress the nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, “Our fathers have inherited only falsehood, futility, and there is no value in them.”
Thus said יהוה, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?
‘And you shall guard My Charge, so as not to do any of these abominable laws which were done before you, so as not to defile yourselves by them. I am יהוה your Elohim.’ ”
“And when praying, do not keep on babbling like the nations. For they think that they shall be heard for their many words.
“And you see and hear that not only at Ephesos, but throughout almost all Asia, this Sha’ul has persuaded and turned away a large number, saying that they are not mighty ones which are made with hands.
because, although they knew Elohim, they did not esteem Him as Elohim, nor gave thanks, but became vain in their reasonings, and their undiscerning heart was darkened.
knowing that you were redeemed from your futile behaviour inherited from your fathers, not with what is corruptible, silver or gold,