Jeremiah 10:8

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

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  • Isa 41:29 : 29 Behold, all of them are worthless; their works are nothing; their metal idols are wind and emptiness.
  • Jer 10:14 : 14 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.
  • Hab 2:18 : 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.
  • Zech 10:2 : 2 For the household idols speak deceit, and the diviners see false visions. They tell deceitful dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore, the people wander like sheep, oppressed because they have no shepherd.
  • Rom 1:21-22 : 21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools.
  • 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.
  • Hos 4:12 : 12 My people consult their wooden idols, and their staffs provide guidance for them. A spirit of prostitution has led them astray; they have been unfaithful under their God.
  • Ps 115:8 : 8 Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
  • Ps 135:18 : 18 Those who make them will become like them; so will all who trust in them.
  • Isa 44:19 : 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?'
  • Jer 2:27 : 27 They say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’ They have turned their backs to me and not their faces. Yet in their time of trouble, they will say, ‘Arise and save us!’
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For 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.

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  • Jer 10:14-15
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    14 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.

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

  • Jer 51:17-18
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    78%

    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.

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

  • Isa 44:9-11
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    75%

    9 All 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.

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

    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.

  • 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.

  • Jer 10:3-5
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    3 For 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.

    4 They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with nails and hammers so it will not totter.

    5 They are like scarecrows in a cucumber field; they cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm—nor can they do any good.

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

  • Ps 135:15-18
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    15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

    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.

  • Hab 2:18-19
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    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.

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

  • 9 Hammered 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 115:7-8
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    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.

  • 8 Understand this, you brutish people! Fools, when will you understand?

  • 22 For 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.

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

  • Jer 8:8-9
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    8 How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us,’ when the false pen of the scribes has produced lies?

    9 The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

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

  • 4 They set up kings, but not by me; they appointed leaders, but I did not know of it. With their silver and gold, they made idols for themselves, to their own destruction.

  • 27 They say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’ They have turned their backs to me and not their faces. Yet in their time of trouble, they will say, ‘Arise and save us!’

  • 8 They are sons of fools, nameless men, driven out from the land.

  • 24 The wealth of the wise is their crown, but the folly of fools yields only folly.

  • Isa 40:17-20
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    17 Before Him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by Him as worthless and less than nothing.

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

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

    20 A 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.

  • 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools.

  • 12 My people consult their wooden idols, and their staffs provide guidance for them. A spirit of prostitution has led them astray; they have been unfaithful under their God.

  • 4 Then I thought, 'These are only the poor; they are foolish because they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.'

  • 6 They 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.

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

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

  • 8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand their path, but the folly of fools is deceit.

  • 24 Look, you are nothing, and your works are less than nothing; anyone who chooses you is an abomination.

  • 1 For the director, according to Mahalath. A contemplative psalm of David.

  • 15 Does the axe exalt itself above the one who wields it? Or does the saw boast against the one who moves it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff acting as though it were not made of wood.

  • 7 Who should not fear You, King of the nations? This is Your due. Among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like You.

  • 21 Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

  • 6 For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of fools—this too is meaningless.