The Lord looks down from heaven on humankind to see if there are any who are wise, who seek after God.
Jeremiah 10:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Everyone is stupid and without knowledge; goldsmiths are all put to shame by their idols, for their images are false, and there is no breath in them. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Every man has become like a brute, irrational and stupid, without knowledge [of God]; every goldsmith is brought to shame by his graven idols; for his molten images are frauds and falsehood, and there is no breath in them. American Standard Version (1901) Every man is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. Common English Bible Everyone is too foolish to understand; every goldsmith is dishonored by his idols, for their images are shams; they aren’t alive. Catholic Public Domain Version Every man has become a fool concerning knowledge; every artist has been confounded by his graven image. For what he has formed is false, and there is no spirit in these things. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Every man is become a fool for knowledge, every artist is confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there is no spirit in them. |
The Lord looks down from heaven on humankind to see if there are any who are wise, who seek after God.
All servants of images are put to shame, those who make their boast in worthless idols; all gods bow down before him.
They shall be turned back and utterly put to shame— those who trust in carved images, who say to cast images, “You are our gods.”
All its devotees shall be put to shame; the artisans, too, are merely human. Let them all assemble; let them stand up; they shall be terrified; they shall all be put to shame.
All of them are put to shame and confounded; the makers of idols go in disgrace together.
I will announce your verdict, and the objects you made will not help you.
Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, nor is it in them to do good.
They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction given by idols is no better than wood!
They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
But when they rose early on the next morning, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord, and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off upon the threshold; only the trunk of Dagon was left to him.