The ironworker labours over the coals, shapes the idol with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. Also he grows hungry and his strength fails; he doesn’t drink water and is faint.
Jeremiah 10:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised He decorates it with silver and gold. It is fastened with hammer and nails, so it won’t totter. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They deck [the idol] with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers so it will not fall apart or move around. American Standard Version (1901) They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. Common English Bible It’s overlaid with silver and gold, and fastened securely with hammer and nails so it won’t fall over. Catholic Public Domain Version He has adorned it with silver and gold. He has put it together with nail and hammer, so that it will not fall apart. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He hath decked it with silver and gold: he hath put it together with nails and hammers, that it may not fall asunder. |
The ironworker labours over the coals, shapes the idol with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. Also he grows hungry and his strength fails; he doesn’t drink water and is faint.
Those who pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales – they hire a goldsmith and he makes it into a god. Then they kneel and bow down to it.
They lift it to their shoulder and bear it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands; it does not budge from its place. They cry out to it but it doesn’t answer; it saves no one from his trouble.
Now they continue to sin and make themselves a cast image, idols skilfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say about them, ‘Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves.’
Woe to him who says to wood: Wake up! or to mute stone: Come alive! Can it teach? Look! It may be plated with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.