Jeremiah 10:4
They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved.
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Referenced Verses
- Isa 40:19-20 : 19 The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it. 20 The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved.
- Isa 46:7 : 7 They put him on their backs, and take him up, and put him in his fixed place, from which he may not be moved; if a man gives a cry for help to him, he is unable to give an answer, or get him out of his trouble.
- Isa 41:6-7 : 6 They gave help everyone to his neighbour; and everyone said to his brother, Take heart! 7 So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.
- Isa 44:12 : 12 The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.
- Ps 115:4 : 4 Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
- Ps 135:15 : 15 The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
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19 The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.
20 The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved.
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7 So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.
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3 Will its wood be used for any work? do men make of it a pin for hanging any vessel on?
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4 Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
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8 But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
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6 As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.
7 They put him on their backs, and take him up, and put him in his fixed place, from which he may not be moved; if a man gives a cry for help to him, he is unable to give an answer, or get him out of his trouble.
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15 The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
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14 He has cedars cut down for himself, he takes an oak and lets it get strong among the trees of the wood; he has an ash-tree planted, and the rain gives it growth.
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19 A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it.
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8 Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made.
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5 And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.
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3 And he made four gold rings for its four angles, two on one side and two on the other,
4 And rods of the same wood plated with gold.
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15 Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.
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28 The rods he made of the same hard wood, plating them with gold.
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5 And make these rods of the same wood, plating them with gold.
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25 In that day, says the Lord of armies, will the nail fixed in a safe place give way; and it will be cut down, and in its fall the weight hanging on it will be cut off, for the Lord has said it.
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22 The buds and the branches were made of the same metal, all together one complete work of the best hammered gold.
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10 Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.
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23 And I will put him like a nail in a safe place; and he will be for a seat of glory to his father's family.
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19 There were four pillars with their bases, all of brass, the hooks being of silver, and their tops and their bands being covered with silver.
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4 They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.
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31 And you are to make a support for lights, of the best gold; its base and its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its cups, its buds, and its flowers are to be made of the same metal.
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34 All the boards were plated with gold, and the rings through which the rods went were of gold, and the rods were plated with gold.
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18 Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.
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38 And five pillars for the curtain, with their hooks; the heads of the pillars were of gold and they were circled with bands of gold; and their five bases were of brass.
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9 He who gets out stones from the earth will be damaged by them, and in the cutting of wood there is danger.
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28 Make rods of the same wood, plated with gold, for lifting the table.
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15 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
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10 It has been made sharp to give death; it is polished so that it may be like a thunder-flame: ...
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11 Plating it with the best gold and putting a gold edge all round it.
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15 The rods for lifting the table he made of hard wood plated with gold.
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14 Crying out with a loud voice; and this is what he said: Let the tree be cut down and its branches broken off; let its leaves be taken off and its fruit sent in every direction: let the beasts get away from under it and the birds from its branches: