Jeremiah 10:8

Good News Translation

All of them are stupid and foolish. What can they learn from wooden idols?

Cross References

Psalm 115:8

May all who made them and who trust in them become like the idols they have made.

Psalm 135:18

May all who made them and who trust in them become like the idols they have made!

Isaiah 41:29

All these gods are useless; they can do nothing at all— these idols are weak and powerless.”

Isaiah 44:18

Such people are too stupid to know what they are doing. They close their eyes and their minds to the truth.

Isaiah 44:19

The maker of idols hasn't the wit or the sense to say, “Some of the wood I burned up. I baked some bread on the coals, and I roasted meat and ate it. And the rest of the wood I made into an idol. Here I am bowing down to a block of wood!”

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.

Jeremiah 2:27

You will all be disgraced—you that say that a tree is your father and that a rock is your mother. This will happen because you turned away from me instead of turning to me. But when you are in trouble, you ask me to come and save you.

Jeremiah 3:9

and was not at all ashamed. She defiled the land, and she committed adultery by worshiping stones and trees.

Jeremiah 4:22

The Lord says, “My people are stupid; they don't know me. They are like foolish children; they have no understanding. They are experts at doing what is evil, but failures at doing what is good.”

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I thought, “These are only the poor and ignorant. They behave foolishly; they don't know what their God requires, what the Lord wants them to do.

Hosea 4:12

They ask for revelations from a piece of wood! A stick tells them what they want to know! They have left me. Like a woman who becomes a prostitute, they have given themselves to other gods.

Jonah 2:8

Those who worship worthless idols have abandoned their loyalty to you.

Habakkuk 2:18

What's the use of an idol? It is only something that a human being has made, and it tells you nothing but lies. What good does it do for its maker to trust it—a god that can't even talk!

Zechariah 10:2

People consult idols and fortunetellers, but the answers they get are lies and nonsense. Some interpret dreams, but only mislead you; the comfort they give is useless. So the people wander about like lost sheep. They are in trouble because they have no leader.