Jeremiah 10:3 - New Revised Standard Version

³ For the customs of the peoples are false: a tree from the forest is cut down, and worked with an ax by the hands of an artisan;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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

³ 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)

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.

Common English Bible

³ 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

³ 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

³ 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.

Jeremiah 10:3 Cross References

Psalm 115:4

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble yourselves and come together, draw near, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge— those who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.

Jeremiah 1:16

And I will utter my judgments against them, for all their wickedness in forsaking me; they have made offerings to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction given by idols is no better than wood!

Jeremiah 14:22

Can any idols of the nations bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for it is you who do all this.

Jeremiah 16:19

O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: Our ancestors have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says the Lord: What wrong did your ancestors find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthless things, and became worthless themselves?

Leviticus 18:30

So keep my charge not to commit any of these abominations that were done before you, and not to defile yourselves by them: I am the Lord your God.

Matthew 6:7

“When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.

Acts 19:26

You also see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost the whole of Asia this Paul has persuaded and drawn away a considerable number of people by saying that gods made with hands are not gods.

Romans 1:21

for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless minds were darkened.

1 Peter 1:18

You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,