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Jeremiah 10:8

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

They shall all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood.

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For the idols have spoken what was unprofitable, and the diviners have seen a lie, and the dreamers have spoken vanity: they comforted in vain: therefore they were led away as a dock: they shall be afflicted, because they have no shepherd.

Every man is become a fool for knowledge, every artist is confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there is no spirit in them.

What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath trusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols.

They do not consider in their mind, nor know, nor have the thought to say: I have burnt part of it in the fire, and I have baked bread. Upon the coals thereof I have broiled flesh and have eaten. And of the residue thereof shall I make an idol? Shall I fall down before the stock of a tree?

Behold, they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.

And slew strong kings: for his mercy endureth for ever.

For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Saying to a stock: Thou art my father. And to a stone: Thou hast begotten me. They have turned their back to me, and not their face: and in the time of their affliction they will say: Arise, and deliver us.

My people have consulted their stocks, and their staff hath declared unto them: for the spirit of fornication hath deceived them, and they have committed fornication against their God.

They have not known, nor understood: for their eyes are covered that they may not see and that they may not understand with their heart.

And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land and played the harlot with stones and with stocks.

But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God.

When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come to thee, unto thy holy temple.




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