Jeremiah 10:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

Cross References

Psalm 115:8

Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.

Psalm 135:18

Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.

Isaiah 41:29

Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.

Isaiah 44:18

They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.

Isaiah 44:19

And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?

Jeremiah 10:14

Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

Jeremiah 2:27

Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.

Jeremiah 3:9

So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.

Hosea 4:12

My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.

Jonah 2:8

The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.

Habakkuk 2:18

What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice?

Zechariah 10:2

For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.