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Jeremiah 10:8

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Idols are worthless, and anyone who worships them is a fool!

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Everyone who made the idols and all who trust them are just as helpless as those useless gods.

Everyone who makes idols and all who trust them will end up as helpless as their idols.

They are nothing, and they can do nothing— they are less than a passing breeze.

Those who worship idols are stupid and blind!

They don't have enough sense to say to themselves, “I made a fire with half of the wood and cooked my bread and meat on it. Then I made something worthless with the other half. Why worship a block of wood?”

People who make idols are so stupid! They will be disappointed, because their false gods are not alive.

worship stone idols and sacred poles as if they had created you and had given you life. You have rejected me, but when you're in trouble, you cry to me for help.

The kingdom of Judah wasn't sorry for being a prostitute, and she didn't care that she had made both herself and the land unclean by worshipping idols of stone and wood.

I heard the LORD say, “My people ignore me. They are foolish children who do not understand that they will be punished. All they know is how to sin.”

Then I thought to myself, “These common people act like fools, and they have never learnt what the LORD their God demands of them.

You expect wooden idols and other objects of wood to give you advice. Lusting for sex at pagan shrines has made you unfaithful to me, your God.

All who worship worthless idols turn from the God who offers them mercy.

What is an idol worth? It's merely a false god. Why trust a speechless image made from wood or metal by human hands?

You can't believe idols and fortune-tellers, or depend on the hope you receive from witchcraft and interpreters of dreams. But you have tried all of these, and now you are like sheep without a shepherd.




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