Look, all of them are a delusion; their works are non-existent; their images are wind and emptiness.
Jeremiah 10:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised They are both stupid and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But they are altogether irrational and stupid and foolish. Their instruction is given by idols who are but wood [it is a teaching of falsity, emptiness, futility]! American Standard Version (1901) But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock. Common English Bible But they are both foolish and silly; they offer nothing because they are mere wood. Catholic Public Domain Version Together, they will all be proven to be unwise and foolish. The doctrine of their vanity is made of wood. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They shall all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood. |
Look, all of them are a delusion; their works are non-existent; their images are wind and emptiness.
Such people do not comprehend and cannot understand, for he has shut their eyes so that they cannot see, and their minds so that they cannot understand.
No one comes to his senses; no one has the perception or insight to say, ‘I burned half of it in the fire, I also baked bread on its coals, I roasted meat and ate. Should I make something detestable with the rest of it? Should I bow down to a block of wood? ’
Everyone is stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his carved image, for his cast images are a lie; there is no breath in them.
say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’ For they have turned their back to me and not their face, yet in their time of disaster they beg, ‘Rise up and save us! ’
Indifferent to her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
‘For my people are fools; they do not know me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing what is evil, but they do not know how to do what is good.’
Then I thought: They are just the poor; they have been foolish. For they don’t understand the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.
My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of promiscuity leads them astray; they act promiscuously in disobedience to their God.
What use is a carved idol after its craftsman carves it? It is only a cast image, a teacher of lies. For the one who crafts its shape trusts in it and makes worthless idols that cannot speak.
For the idols speak falsehood, and the diviners see illusions; they relate empty dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they suffer affliction because there is no shepherd.