Jeremiah 10:8 - Easy To Read Version

⁸ All the people of the other nations are stupid and foolish.\par Their teachings come from worthless wooden statues.\par

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ 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)

⁸ But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

Common English Bible

⁸ But they are both foolish and silly; they offer nothing because they are mere wood.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ 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

⁸ They shall all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood.

Jeremiah 10:8 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 115:8

The people who make and trust those statues\par will become just like them!\par

Psalm 135:18

And the people who made the statues\par will become just like them!\par Why? Because they trusted those statues\par to help them.\par

Isaiah 41:29

All of those gods are less than nothing!\par They can’t do anything!\par Those statues are absolutely worthless!\par

Isaiah 44:18

Those people don’t know what they are doing. They don’t understand! It is like their eyes are covered so they can’t see. Their hearts (minds) don’t try to understand.

Isaiah 44:19

Those people have not thought about these things. The people don’t understand, so they have never thought to themselves, “I burned half of the wood in the fire. I used the hot coals to bake my bread and cook my meat. Then I ate the meat. And I used the wood that was left to make this terrible thing. I am worshiping a block of wood!”

Jeremiah 10:14

People are so stupid!\par Metal workers are fooled by the idols\par that they themselves made.\par Those statues are nothing but lies.\par They are stupid. {\cf2\super [82]} \par

Jeremiah 2:27

Those people talk to pieces of wood!\par They say, ‘You are my father.’\par Those people speak to a rock.\par They say, ‘You gave birth to me.’\par All those people will be ashamed.\par Those people don’t look at me.\par They have turned their backs to me.\par But when the people of Judah\par get into trouble, they say to me,\par ‘Come and save us!’\par

Jeremiah 3:9

Judah did not care that she was acting like a prostitute. So she made her country ‘dirty.’ She did the sin of adultery by worshiping idols made out of stone and wood.

Jeremiah 4:22

\{God said,\} “My people are foolish.\par They don’t know me.\par They are stupid children.\par They don’t understand.\par They are skillful at doing evil,\par but they don’t know how to do good.”\par

Jeremiah 5:4

But I (Jeremiah) said to myself,\par “It must be only the poor people\par that are so foolish.\par Poor people have not learned\par the way of the Lord.\par Poor people don’t know\par the teachings of their God.\par

Hosea 4:12

My people are asking pieces of wood for advice. They think those sticks will answer them. Why? Because they have chased after those false gods like prostitutes. {\cf2\super [38]} They left their God and became like prostitutes.

Jonah 2:8

“Some people worship useless idols.\par But those statues never help them. {\cf2\super [12]} \par

Habakkuk 2:18

That person’s false god will not help him. Why? Because it is only a statue that some man covered with metal. It is only a statue. So the person that made it can’t expect it to help. That statue can’t even speak!

Zechariah 10:2

People use their little statues and magic to learn the things that will happen in the future—but that is all useless. Those people see visions and tell about their dreams, but it is nothing but worthless lies. So the people are like sheep wandering here and there crying for help—but there is no shepherd to lead them.