Jeremiah 10:8

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!

Cross References

Psalm 115:8

Those who make them are like them; so are all who trust in them.

Psalm 135:18

Like them be those who make them!— yea, every one who trusts in them!

Isaiah 41:29

Behold, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their molten images are empty wind.

Isaiah 44:18

They know not, nor do they discern; for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their minds, so that they cannot understand.

Isaiah 44:19

No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire, I also baked bread on its coals, I roasted flesh and have eaten; and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?”

Jeremiah 10:14

Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols; for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.

Jeremiah 2:27

who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they say, ‘Arise and save us!’

Jeremiah 3:9

Because harlotry was so light to her, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are stupid children, they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but how to do good they know not.”

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I said, “These are only the poor, they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the Lord, the law of their God.

Hosea 4:12

My people inquire of a thing of wood, and their staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the harlot.

Jonah 2:8

Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their true loyalty.

Habakkuk 2:18

What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For the workman trusts in his own creation when he makes dumb idols!

Zechariah 10:2

For the teraphim utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; the dreamers tell false dreams, and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for want of a shepherd.