Jeremiah 10:5

Good News Translation

Such idols are like scarecrows in a field of melons; they cannot speak; they have to be carried because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them: they can cause you no harm, and they can do you no good.”

Cross References

1 Kings 18:26

They took the bull that was brought to them, prepared it, and prayed to Baal until noon. They shouted, “Answer us, Baal!” and kept dancing around the altar they had built. But no answer came.

2 Chronicles 25:15

This made the Lord angry, so he sent a prophet to Amaziah. The prophet demanded, “Why have you worshiped foreign gods that could not even save their own people from your power?”

Isaiah 16:12

The people of Moab wear themselves out going to their mountain shrines and to their temples to pray, but it will do them no good.

Isaiah 45:20

The Lord says, “Come together, people of the nations, all who survive the fall of the empire; present yourselves for the trial! The people who parade with their idols of wood and pray to gods that cannot save them— those people know nothing at all!

Isaiah 46:1

“This is the end for Babylon's gods! Bel and Nebo once were worshiped, but now they are loaded on donkeys, a burden for the backs of tired animals.

Isaiah 46:7

They lift it to their shoulders and carry it; they put it in place, and there it stands, unable to move from where it is. If any pray to it, it cannot answer or save them from disaster.

Jeremiah 10:14

At the sight of this, people feel stupid and senseless; those who make idols are disillusioned, because the gods they make are false and lifeless.

Habakkuk 2:19

You are doomed! You say to a piece of wood, “Wake up!” or to a block of stone, “Get up!” Can an idol reveal anything to you? It may be covered with silver and gold, but there is no life in it.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that while you were still heathen, you were led astray in many ways to the worship of lifeless idols.

1 Corinthians 8:4

So then, about eating the food offered to idols: we know that an idol stands for something that does not really exist; we know that there is only the one God.

Deuteronomy 4:28

There you will serve gods made by human hands, gods of wood and stone, gods that cannot see or hear, eat or smell.