Jeremiah 10:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction given by idols is no better than wood! More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But they are altogether irrational and stupid and foolish. Their instruction is given by idols who are but wood [it is a teaching of falsity, emptiness, futility]! American Standard Version (1901) But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock. Common English Bible But they are both foolish and silly; they offer nothing because they are mere wood. Catholic Public Domain Version Together, they will all be proven to be unwise and foolish. The doctrine of their vanity is made of wood. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They shall all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood. |
No, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their images are empty wind.
They do not know, nor do they comprehend, for their eyes are shut, so that they cannot see, and their minds as well, so that they cannot understand.
No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. Now shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?”
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.
who say 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. But in the time of their trouble they say, “Come and save us!”
Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.
“For my people are foolish; they do not know me; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil but do not know how to do good.”
Then I said, “These are only the poor; they have no sense, for they do not know the way of the Lord, the law of their God.
My people consult a piece of wood, and their divining rod gives them oracles. For a spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have prostituted themselves, forsaking their God.
What use is an idol once its maker has shaped it— a cast image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in what has been made, though the product is only an idol that cannot speak!
For the teraphim utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; the dreamers tell false dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they suffer for lack of a shepherd.