Jeremiah 10:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction given by idols is no better than wood!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ 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)

⁸ But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

Common English Bible

⁸ But they are both foolish and silly; they offer nothing because they are mere wood.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Together, they will all be proven to be unwise and foolish. The doctrine of their vanity is made of wood.

Jeremiah 10:8 Cross References

Zechariah 10:2

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.

Jeremiah 10:14

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.

Habakkuk 2:18

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!

Isaiah 44:19

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?”

Isaiah 41:29

No, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their images are empty wind.

Psalm 135:18

Those who make them and all who trust them shall become like them.

Psalm 115:8

Those who make them are like them; so are all who trust in them.

Jeremiah 4:22

“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.”

Jeremiah 2:27

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!”

Hosea 4:12

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.

Isaiah 44:18

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.

Jeremiah 3:9

Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.

Jeremiah 5:4

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.

Jonah 2:8

Those who worship vain idols forsake their true loyalty.