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Jeremiah 10:8

Tree of Life Version

They are totally stupid and foolish. Discipline is useless—it’s wood!

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The idols utter deceit and diviners see lies. They relate false dreams and comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep, afflicted because there is no shepherd.

Everyone is stupid, ignorant. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idol! His molten image is a fraud. There is no breath in them.

What use is an idol when its craftsman has carved it? Or a metal image—a teacher of lies? For a craftsman has trusted in the image that he created, to make dumb idols.

No one reflects in his heart, with no knowledge or discernment to say, “I burned half of it in the fire and I also baked bread on its coals. I roasted meat and ate—and then I make the rest of it an abomination? Should I bow before a block of wood?”

Indeed, they are all a delusion. Their works are null. Their molten images are wind and waste.

Those who make them will be like them— so will all who keep trusting in them.

Those making them will become like them —everyone trusting in them.

“For My people are foolish. They do not know Me. They are senseless children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they do not know.”

They say to wood, ‘You are my father’ and to a stone, ‘You birthed me.’ They have turned their back to Me and not their face. Yet when they are in trouble they say, ‘Rise up and save us!’

My people consult their wooden idol and their divining rod informs them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have been a prostitute— out from under their God.

They do not know or understand! For He smeared over their eyes, so they cannot see, and their hearts, so they cannot understand.

It happened that through her frivolous prostitution, she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and with wood.

Then I said: These are only the poor. They are foolish. For they do not know the way of Adonai, the ordinance of their God.

As my soul was fading from me, I remembered Adonai and my prayer came to You, toward Your holy Temple.




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