Jeremiah 10:8 - Revised Standard Version They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but 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. |
Like them be those who make them!— yea, every one who trusts in them!
Behold, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their molten images are empty wind.
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.
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?”
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.
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!’
Because harlotry was so light to her, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.
“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.”
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.
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.
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!
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.