Jeremiah 10:14

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Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by their idols. The images he makes are a fraud; they have no breath in them.

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  • Isa 46:7-8 : 7 They lift it on their shoulders and carry it; they set it in its place, and there it stays. It does not move from its spot. If someone cries to it, it cannot answer or save them from their troubles. 8 Remember this and show yourselves to be men; take it to heart, you transgressors.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 They are all senseless and foolish; their instruction comes from worthless idols.
  • Jer 51:17-18 : 17 Every human is senseless, lacking knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them. 18 They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment, they will perish.
  • Hab 2:18-19 : 18 What profit is an idol when its maker has carved it, or a cast image that teaches falsehood? For its maker trusts in his own creation to make worthless idols that cannot speak. 19 Woe to him who says to wood, 'Awake!' or to silent stone, 'Arise!' Can it teach? Look, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath at all within it.
  • Isa 44:18-20 : 18 They have no knowledge or understanding; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their hearts so they cannot understand. 19 No one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, 'Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals, roasted meat, and ate. Now, should I make an abomination of the rest? Should I bow down to a block of wood?' 20 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, 'Isn't there a lie in my right hand?'
  • Ps 115:4-8 : 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. 5 They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes but cannot see. 6 They have ears but cannot hear, noses but cannot smell. 7 They have hands but cannot touch, feet but cannot walk, nor can they make a sound with their throats. 8 Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
  • Ps 135:16-18 : 16 They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes but cannot see. 17 They have ears but cannot hear; there is no breath in their mouths. 18 Those who make them will become like them; so will all who trust in them.
  • Prov 30:2 : 2 Surely I am more ignorant than anyone, and I lack human understanding.
  • Isa 42:17 : 17 They will be turned back; they will be utterly ashamed—those who trust in carved idols and say to molten images, 'You are our gods.'
  • Isa 44:11 : 11 Behold, all his companions will be put to shame, and the craftsmen are mere men. Let them all assemble and take their stand; they will be terrified and put to shame together.
  • Ps 14:2 : 2 The LORD looks down from heaven on all humanity to see if there is anyone who understands, anyone who seeks after God.
  • Ps 92:6 : 6 How great are Your works, O LORD! How profound are Your thoughts!
  • Ps 94:8 : 8 Understand this, you brutish people! Fools, when will you understand?
  • Ps 97:7 : 7 All who serve carved images and boast in idols are put to shame; bow down to Him, all you gods!
  • Isa 45:16 : 16 They will all be ashamed and humiliated, all of them will walk in disgrace—the makers of idols.
  • Rom 1:22-23 : 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools. 23 And they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, animals, and creeping things.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 51:17-18
    2 verses
    97%

    17Every human is senseless, lacking knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.

    18They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment, they will perish.

  • Isa 44:9-11
    3 verses
    81%

    9All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses see nothing and know nothing, so they will be put to shame.

    10Who fashions a god or casts an idol that can profit nothing?

    11Behold, all his companions will be put to shame, and the craftsmen are mere men. Let them all assemble and take their stand; they will be terrified and put to shame together.

  • Jer 10:15
    79%

    15They are worthless, a work of mockery; at the time of their punishment, they will perish.

  • Hab 2:18-19
    2 verses
    79%

    18What profit is an idol when its maker has carved it, or a cast image that teaches falsehood? For its maker trusts in his own creation to make worthless idols that cannot speak.

    19Woe to him who says to wood, 'Awake!' or to silent stone, 'Arise!' Can it teach? Look, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath at all within it.

  • Jer 10:8-9
    2 verses
    79%

    8They are all senseless and foolish; their instruction comes from worthless idols.

    9Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz—the work of the craftsman and of the goldsmith. Their clothing is blue and purple, all made by skilled workers.

  • Ps 135:15-18
    4 verses
    77%

    15The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

    16They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes but cannot see.

    17They have ears but cannot hear; there is no breath in their mouths.

    18Those who make them will become like them; so will all who trust in them.

  • Isa 40:18-20
    3 verses
    77%

    18To whom, then, will you compare God? What image can you find to resemble Him?

    19As for an idol, a craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.

    20A person who is too poor to afford such an idol selects wood that will not rot; they look for a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple.

  • Isa 41:29
    76%

    29Behold, all of them are worthless; their works are nothing; their metal idols are wind and emptiness.

  • Ps 115:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7They have hands but cannot touch, feet but cannot walk, nor can they make a sound with their throats.

    8Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

  • Ps 115:4
    76%

    4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

  • Jer 16:20
    73%

    20Can people make their own gods? Such gods are not gods at all!

  • Isa 44:17-19
    3 verses
    73%

    17From the rest he makes a god, his idol, and bows down to it. He worships it and prays to it, saying, 'Save me, for you are my god.'

    18They have no knowledge or understanding; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their hearts so they cannot understand.

    19No one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, 'Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals, roasted meat, and ate. Now, should I make an abomination of the rest? Should I bow down to a block of wood?'

  • Isa 45:16
    72%

    16They will all be ashamed and humiliated, all of them will walk in disgrace—the makers of idols.

  • Isa 2:8
    72%

    8Their land is filled with idols. They bow down to the work of their own hands, to what their fingers have made.

  • Isa 31:7
    72%

    7For on that day each of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your hands have sinfully made.

  • Isa 42:17
    72%

    17They will be turned back; they will be utterly ashamed—those who trust in carved idols and say to molten images, 'You are our gods.'

  • Isa 44:15
    72%

    15It becomes fuel for a man; he takes part of it to warm himself, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. But he also makes a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.

  • Ps 92:6
    71%

    6How great are Your works, O LORD! How profound are Your thoughts!

  • Deut 27:15
    71%

    15Cursed is anyone who makes a carved or cast idol, an abomination to the LORD, the work of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Jer 6:28-29
    2 verses
    71%

    28All of them are stubborn rebels, going about with slander. They are bronze and iron; all of them act corruptly.

    29The bellows blow fiercely to burn away the lead with fire, but the refining goes on in vain; the wicked are not purged out.

  • Hos 13:2
    71%

    2Now they continue to sin and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully crafted from their silver, all of it the work of artisans. They say about them, 'Those who sacrifice kiss the calves!'

  • Rom 1:23
    71%

    23And they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, animals, and creeping things.

  • Isa 46:6
    70%

    6They pour out gold from their purses and weigh silver on a scale. They hire a craftsman to make it into a god, and they bow down and even worship it.

  • Hos 8:6
    70%

    6This calf comes from Israel! A craftsman made it; it is not God. It will be shattered into pieces—this calf of Samaria.

  • Ps 97:7
    70%

    7All who serve carved images and boast in idols are put to shame; bow down to Him, all you gods!

  • Ps 14:1
    70%

    1To the director. Of David. The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt and commit abominable deeds; there is no one who does good.

  • Jer 10:3
    70%

    3For the customs of the nations are worthless. They cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped by the hands of a craftsman with a chisel.

  • Isa 29:16
    70%

    16You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, 'You did not make me'? Can the pot say to the potter, 'You know nothing'?

  • Isa 37:19
    69%

    19They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

  • Jer 4:22
    69%

    22For my people are foolish; they do not know me. They are senseless children and have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they do not know how to do good.

  • Isa 17:8
    69%

    8They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, nor will they regard what their fingers have made, neither the Asherim nor the incense altars.

  • Ps 39:6
    69%

    6Behold, You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before You. Surely, every man is but a breath. Selah.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    68%

    18They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but merely the work of human hands—wood and stone.

  • Ezek 22:18
    68%

    18Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead inside a furnace—they are the dross of silver.