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Jeremiah 10:8

New American Standard Bible 2020

But they are altogether stupid and foolish; The instruction from idols is nothing but wood!

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Those who make them will become like them, Everyone who trusts in them.

Those who make them will become like them, Yes, everyone who trusts in them.

“Behold, all of them are false; Their works are nothing, Their cast metal images are wind and emptiness.

They do not know, nor do they understand, for He has smeared over their eyes so that they cannot see, and their hearts so that they cannot comprehend.

No one remembers, nor is there knowledge or understanding to say, “I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then I make the rest of it into an abomination, I bow down before a block of wood!”

Every person is stupid, devoid of knowledge; Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, For his cast metal images are deceitful, And there is no breath in them.

Who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ And to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me, And not their faces; But in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise and save us!’

And because of the thoughtlessness of her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

“For My people are foolish, They do not know Me; They are foolish children And have no understanding. They are skillful at doing evil, But they do not know how to do good.”

¶Then I said, “They are only the poor, They are foolish; For they do not know the way of the Lord Or the judgment of their God.

My people consult their wooden idol, and their diviner’s wand informs them; For a spirit of infidelity has led them astray, And they have been unfaithful, departing from their God.

“Those who are followers of worthless idols Abandon their faithfulness,

¶“What benefit is a carved image when its maker has carved it, Or a cast metal image, a teacher of falsehood? For its maker trusts in his own handiwork When he fashions speechless idols.

For the household idols speak deception, And the diviners see an illusion And tell deceitful dreams; They comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep, They are wretched because there is no shepherd.




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