Jeremiah 10:8

New American Bible - revised edition

One and all they are stupid and senseless, the instruction from nonentities—only wood!

Cross References

Psalm 115:8

Their makers will be like them, and anyone who trusts in them.

Psalm 135:18

Their makers will become like them, and anyone who trusts in them.

Isaiah 41:29

Ah, all of them are nothing, their works are nought, their idols, empty wind!

Isaiah 44:18

They do not know, do not understand; their eyes are too clouded to see, their minds, to perceive.

Isaiah 44:19

He does not think clearly; he lacks the wit and knowledge to say, “Half the wood I burned in the fire, on its embers I baked bread, I roasted meat and ate. Shall I turn the rest into an abomination? Shall I worship a block of wood?”

Jeremiah 10:14

Everyone is too stupid to know; every artisan is put to shame by his idol: He has molded a fraud, without breath of life.

Jeremiah 2:27

They say to a piece of wood, “You are my father,” and to a stone, “You gave me birth.” They turn their backs to me, not their faces; yet in their time of trouble they cry out, “Rise up and save us!”

Jeremiah 3:9

With her casual prostitution, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and wood.

Jeremiah 4:22

My people are fools, they do not know me; They are senseless children, without understanding; They are wise at evil, but they do not know how to do good.

Jeremiah 5:4

I thought: These are only the lowly, they behave foolishly; For they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.

Hosea 4:12

My people consult their piece of wood, and their wand makes pronouncements for them, For the spirit of prostitution has led them astray; they prostitute themselves, forsaking their God.

Jonah 2:8

When I became faint, I remembered the Lord; My prayer came to you in your holy temple.

Habakkuk 2:18

Of what use is the carved image, that its maker should carve it? Or the molten image, the lying oracle, that its very maker should trust in it, and make mute idols?

Zechariah 10:2

For the teraphim have spoken nonsense, the diviners have seen false visions; Deceitful dreams they have told, empty comfort they have offered. This is why they wandered like sheep, wretched, for they have no shepherd.