Jeremiah 10:3 - Y'all Version Bible For the customs of the peoples are worthless; They cut down a tree in the forest, and an artisan shapes it with the ax. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For the customs and ordinances of the peoples are false, empty, and futile; it is but a tree which one cuts out of the forest [to make for himself a god], the work of the hands of the craftsman with the ax or other tool. American Standard Version (1901) For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. Common English Bible The rituals of the nations are hollow: a tree from the forest is chopped down and shaped by the craftsman’s tools. Catholic Public Domain Version For the laws of the people are empty. For the work of the hand of the craftsman has cut a tree from the forest with an axe. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe. |
“Y’all assemble and come. Y’all draw near together, those who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save.
I will utter my judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.
But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols made of wood.
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, YHWH our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
YHWH, my strength, my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.
YHWH says, “What unrighteousness have y’all’s ancestors found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?
Therefore y’all must keep my requirements and not practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before y’all, so y’all do not defile yourselves* with them. I am YHWH y’all’s God.’”
In praying, y’all are not to use vain repetitions as the ethnic groups do, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
And y’all see and hear that this Paul has convinced and turned many people, not just here in Ephesus, but almost all throughout Asia. He says that gods that made with human hands are not gods.
For though they knew God, they didn’t glorify him as God and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened.
knowing that it was not with corruptible things like silver or gold that y’all were redeemed from the useless way of life handed down from y’all’s ancestors,