Jeremiah 10:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁵ 3 At his voice he giveth a multitude of waters in the heaven, and lifteth up the clouds from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings for rain, and bringeth for the wind out of his treasures.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ [Their idols] are like pillars of turned work [as upright and stationary and immobile as a palm tree], like scarecrows in a cucumber field; they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it possible for them to do good [and it is not in them].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ They are like a palm-tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.

Common English Bible

⁵ They are no different than a scarecrow in a cucumber patch: they can’t speak; they must be carried because they can’t walk. Don’t be afraid of them, because they can’t do harm or good.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ They have been fabricated in the likeness of a palm tree, and they will not speak. They must be carried to be moved, because they do not have the ability to walk. Therefore, do not be willing to fear them, for they can do neither evil nor good."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ They are framed after the likeness of a palm-tree, and shall not speak: they must be carried to be removed, because they cannot go. Therefore fear them not, for they can neither do evil nor good.

Jeremiah 10:5 Cross References

1 Kings 18:26

1 And he took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord came, saying: Israel shall be thy name.

2 Chronicles 25:15

0 Amasias would not hearken to him, because it was the Lord's will that he should be delivered into the hands of enemies, because of the gods of Edom.

Isaiah 16:12

And the fruit thereof that shall be left upon it, shall be as one cluster of grapes, and as the shaking of the olive tree, two or three berries in the top of a bough, or four or five upon the top of the tree, saith the Lord the God of Israel.

Isaiah 45:20

Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who are carried by my bowels, are borne up by my womb.

Isaiah 46:1

Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me:

Isaiah 46:7

Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.

Jeremiah 10:14

2 Behold the sound of a noise cometh, a great commotion out of the land of the north: to make the cities of Juda a desert, and a dwelling for dragons.

Habakkuk 2:19

I saw the tents of Ethiopia for their iniquity, the curtains of the land of Madian shall be troubled.

1 Corinthians 12:2

1 But all these things one and the same Spirit worketh, dividing to every one according as he will.

1 Corinthians 8:4

3 Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother.

Deuteronomy 4:28

3 That a people should hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of fire, as thou hast heard, and lived: