Jeremiah 10:4 - Easy To Read Version

⁴ They make their idols beautiful\par with silver and gold.\par They use hammers and nails\par to fasten their idols down,\par so they will not fall over.\par

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ They deck [the idol] with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers so it will not fall apart or move around.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

Common English Bible

⁴ It’s overlaid with silver and gold, and fastened securely with hammer and nails so it won’t fall over.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ He has adorned it with silver and gold. He has put it together with nail and hammer, so that it will not fall apart.

Jeremiah 10:4 Cross References

Psalm 115:4

The “gods” of those nations are only statues\par made from gold and silver.\par They are only statues\par that some person made.\par

Psalm 135:15

The gods of the other people\par were only gold and silver statues.\par Their gods were only statues\par that people made.\par

Isaiah 44:12

One worker uses his tools to heat iron over hot coals. This man uses his hammer to beat the metal, and the metal becomes a statue. This man uses his own powerful arms. But when the man becomes hungry, he loses his power. If the man does not drink water, he becomes weak.

Isaiah 46:6

Some people are rich with gold and silver. Gold falls from their purses, and they weigh their silver on scales. Those people pay an artist to make a false god from wood. Then those people bow down and worship that false god.

Isaiah 46:7

Those people put their false god on their shoulders and carry it. That false god is useless—people have to carry it! People set the statue on the ground; and that false god can’t move. That false god never walks away from its place. People can yell at it, but it will not answer. That false god is only a statue—it can’t save people from their troubles.

Hosea 13:2

Now the Israelites sin more and more. They make idols {\cf2\super [143]} for themselves. Workers make those fancy statues from silver. And then those people talk to their statues! They offer sacrifices to those statues. They kiss those \{golden\} calves.

Habakkuk 2:19

It will be very bad for the person that says to a wooden statue, “Get up!” It will be very bad for the person that says to a stone that can’t speak, “Wake up!” Those things can’t help him. That statue may be covered with gold and silver, but there is no life in that statue.