Jeremiah 10:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

for the customs of the peoples are false. A tree from the forest is cut down, and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.

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King 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.

Jeremiah 10:3 Cross References

Psalm 115:4

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Isaiah 45:20

“Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge 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 burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Art thou not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on thee, for thou doest all these things.

Jeremiah 16:19

O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited naught but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says the Lord: “What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?

Leviticus 18:30

So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and never to defile yourselves by them: I am the Lord your God.”

Matthew 6:7

“And in praying do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

Acts 19:26

And you see and hear that not only at Ephesus but almost throughout all Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable company of people, saying that gods made with hands are not gods.

Romans 1:21

for although 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 fathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,