Jeremiah 10:5

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Just like a scarecrow in a field of cucumbers, their idols can't speak. They have to be carried around because they can't walk. You don't have to be afraid of them because they can't hurt you—and they can't do you any good either.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:26

So they took the bull provided and prepared it. Then they called on Baal by name from morning until noon. “Baal, answer us!” they pleaded. But no voice was heard, no one answered. They hobbled in a dance around the altar they had made.

2 Chronicles 25:15

The Lord became angry with Amaziah and he sent a prophet to him, who said to him, “Why would you worship the gods of a people who couldn't even save their own people from you?”

Isaiah 16:12

The Moabites go and wear themselves out worshiping at their high places. They go to their shrines to pray, but it does them no good.

Isaiah 45:20

Gather yourselves together, and come, come close, you refugees of the nations. Aren't they stupid, these people who carry around their wooden idols, and who pray to a god that can't save them?

Isaiah 46:1

Bel bows down, Nebo bends low; their idols are carried off on beasts of burden, a heavy weight for the tired animals.

Isaiah 46:7

They lift the idol onto their shoulders, carry it along, and then put it in place. It stays there and doesn't move. Even when people cry out to it for help, it doesn't answer—it can't save them from their troubles.

Jeremiah 10:14

Everyone is stupid; they don't know anything. Every metalworker is embarrassed by the idols they make. For their images made of molten metal are fraudulent—they're not alive!

Habakkuk 2:19

What disaster is coming to you who say to something made of wood, “Wake up!” or to lifeless stone, “Get up!” Can it teach you anything? Look at it! It's covered with gold and silver, but there is no life inside it.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that when you were pagans, you were deceived, being led astray by worshiping idols who couldn't even speak.

1 Corinthians 8:4

So regarding eating food sacrificed to idols: we know that there are no such things as idols in the world, and that there is only one real God.

Deuteronomy 4:28

There you will worship gods of wood and stone made by human beings. These idols can't see or hear or eat or smell.