I will sacrifice to you the sacrifice of praise, and I will invoke the name of the Lord.
Jeremiah 10:8 - Catholic Public Domain Version Together, they will all be proven to be unwise and foolish. The doctrine of their vanity is made of wood. 更多版本King 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. 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. English Standard Version 2016 They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood! |
I will sacrifice to you the sacrifice of praise, and I will invoke the name of the Lord.
Behold, they are all unjust, and their works are empty. Their idols are wind and emptiness.
They have neither known nor understood. For their eyes are obscured, lest they see with their eyes and understand with their heart.
They do not consider in their mind, nor do they know, nor do they think to say: "I have burned part of it in the fire, and I have baked bread upon its coals. I have cooked flesh and I have eaten. And from its remainder, should I make an idol? Should I fall prostrate before the trunk of a tree?"
Every man has become a fool concerning knowledge; every artist has been confounded by his graven image. For what he has formed is false, and there is no spirit in these things.
For they say to a piece of wood, 'You are my father,' and to a stone, 'You have conceived me.' They have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their affliction, they will say: 'Rise up and deliver us.'
And by the act of her fornication, she defiled the land. For she committed adultery with that which is stone and wood.
For my foolish people have not known me. They are foolish and mad sons. They are clever in doing evil, but they do not know how to do good.
But I said: Perhaps these are the poor and the senseless, who are ignorant of the way of the Lord, of the judgment of their God.
My people have inquired of their stave, and their staff has announced to them. For the spirit of fornication has deceived them, and they have been fornicating before their God.
When my soul was in anguish within me, I called to mind the Lord, so that my prayer might come to you, to your holy temple.
Of what benefit is the graven image? For its maker has formed it, a molten and imaginary deception. For its maker has hoped in a figment of his own creation, so as to make a dumb likeness.
For the images have been speaking what is useless, and the diviners have seen a lie, and the dreamers have been speaking false hope: they have comforted in vain. For this reason, they have been led away like a flock; they will be afflicted, because they have no shepherd.