Jeremiah 10:14

Bishops' Bible (1568)

His wisdome maketh all men fooles, and confounded be casters of images: for that they cast, is but a vayne thing, and hath no life.

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  • Isa 46:7-8 : 7 Yet must he be taken on mens shoulders and borne, and set in his place, that he may stande, and not moue out of his place: And if one crye vnto hym, he geueth no aunswere, and deliuereth not the man that calleth vpon hym from his trouble. 8 Consider this well, and be ashamed: go into your owne selues.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 They are altogether brutishe and vnwise in this one thing: wood is the teaching of vanitie.
  • Jer 51:17-18 : 17 If they be esteemed by their wisdome, all men are become fooles: confounded be all the casters of images, for the thing that they make, is but deceipt, and hath no breath. 18 Uayne is it and an erronious worke, and in the tyme of visitation it shall perishe.
  • Hab 2:18-19 : 18 What profiteth the image? for the maker therof hath made it an image and a teacher of lyes, though he that made it trust therin when he maketh dumbe idoles. 19 Wo vnto hym that sayth to the wood, Awake: and to the dumbe stone, Rise vp, it shall teache thee: beholde it is layde ouer with gold and siluer, & there is no breath in it.
  • Isa 44:18-20 : 18 Yet men neither consider nor vnderstande, because their eyes be stopped that they can not see, and their heartes that they can not perceaue. 19 They ponder not in their mindes, for they haue neither knowledge nor vnderstanding to thinke thus: I haue brent one peece in the fire, I haue baked bread with the coales thereof, I haue rosted fleshe withall, and eaten it: and I wyll nowe of the residue make an abhominable idoll, and fall downe before a rotten peece of wood. 20 Thus doth he but lose his labour, and his heart whiche is deceaued doth turne hym aside, so that none of them can haue a free conscience to thinke, Do not I erre?
  • Ps 115:4-8 : 4 Their idols are siluer and gold: euen the workes of mens handes. 5 They haue a mouth and speake not: they haue eyes and see not. 6 They haue eares and heare not: they haue noses and smell not. 7 They haue handes and handle not, they haue feete and walke not: and they vtter no sounde out of their throtes. 8 They that make them are lyke vnto them: euery one that putteth his trust in them.
  • Ps 135:16-18 : 16 They haue a mouth and speake not: they haue eyes but they see not. 17 They haue eares and they heare not: yea there is no breath in their mouth. 18 They that make them are lyke vnto them: and euery one that putteth his trust in them.
  • Prov 30:2 : 2 Surely I am more foolishe then any man, and haue no mans vnderstandyng.
  • Isa 42:17 : 17 They are fallen backe, yea and let them be ashamed earnestly that hope in idols, and say to the moulten images, ye are our gods.
  • Isa 44:11 : 11 Beholde, all the felowship of them must be brought to confusion, & truely all the workemasters of them are men: they shal all be gathered together, they shall stand, tremble, and be confounded one with another.
  • Ps 14:2 : 2 God loked downe from heauen vpon the children of men: to see yf there were any that did vnderstande and seke after the Lorde.
  • Ps 92:6 : 6 An vnwise man doth not consider this: and a foole doth not vnderstande it.
  • Ps 94:8 : 8 Understande ye vnwyse among the people: O ye fooles, when wyll ye be well aduised?
  • Ps 97:7 : 7 Confounded be all they that do seruice vnto carued images: and that do glorie in idols, but O gods, you all shall worshyp hym.
  • Isa 45:16 : 16 Confounded are they all and put to dishonour, thei are gone hence together with shame, euen the makers of images.
  • Rom 1:22-23 : 22 When they counted them selues wyse, they became fooles: 23 And turned the glorie of the immortall God, vnto an image, made not only after the similitude of a mortal man, but also of birdes, and foure footed beastes, and of crepyng beastes.

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  • Jer 51:17-18
    2 verses
    97%

    17 If they be esteemed by their wisdome, all men are become fooles: confounded be all the casters of images, for the thing that they make, is but deceipt, and hath no breath.

    18 Uayne is it and an erronious worke, and in the tyme of visitation it shall perishe.

  • Isa 44:9-11
    3 verses
    81%

    9 All caruers of images are but vayne, and the carued images that they loue can do no good: they must beare recorde them selues, that seeing they can neither see nor vnderstande, they shalbe confounded.

    10 Who dare then make a god, or fashion an image that is profitable for nothing?

    11 Beholde, all the felowship of them must be brought to confusion, & truely all the workemasters of them are men: they shal all be gathered together, they shall stand, tremble, and be confounded one with another.

  • Jer 10:15
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    15 The vayne craftesmen with their workes that they in their vanitie haue made, shall perishe one with another in time of visitation.

  • Hab 2:18-19
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    79%

    18 What profiteth the image? for the maker therof hath made it an image and a teacher of lyes, though he that made it trust therin when he maketh dumbe idoles.

    19 Wo vnto hym that sayth to the wood, Awake: and to the dumbe stone, Rise vp, it shall teache thee: beholde it is layde ouer with gold and siluer, & there is no breath in it.

  • Jer 10:8-9
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    79%

    8 They are altogether brutishe and vnwise in this one thing: wood is the teaching of vanitie.

    9 Siluer is brought out of Tharsis, and beaten to plates, and gold from Ophir, a worke that is made with the hande of the craftesman, and they are clothed with yelowe silke and scarlet: all these are the worke of cunning men.

  • Ps 135:15-18
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    77%

    15 As for the idols of the Heathen they are but siluer and golde: the worke of mens handes.

    16 They haue a mouth and speake not: they haue eyes but they see not.

    17 They haue eares and they heare not: yea there is no breath in their mouth.

    18 They that make them are lyke vnto them: and euery one that putteth his trust in them.

  • Isa 40:18-20
    3 verses
    77%

    18 To whom then wyll ye lyken God? or what similitude will ye set vp to him?

    19 Shall the caruer make hym a carued image? and shall the goldesmith couer hym with golde, or cast hym into a fourme of siluer plates?

    20 Moreouer, shal the image maker that the poore man which is disposed may haue some thyng to set vp also, seeke out and choose a tree that is not rotten, and carue thereout an image that moueth not?

  • Isa 41:29
    76%

    29 Lo wicked are they, and vayne, with the thinges also that they take in hand, yea their images are but winde and vayne thinges.

  • Ps 115:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7 They haue handes and handle not, they haue feete and walke not: and they vtter no sounde out of their throtes.

    8 They that make them are lyke vnto them: euery one that putteth his trust in them.

  • Ps 115:4
    76%

    4 Their idols are siluer and gold: euen the workes of mens handes.

  • Jer 16:20
    73%

    20 Howe can a man make those his gods, which are not able to be gods?

  • Isa 44:17-19
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    73%

    17 And of the residue he maketh hym a god, and grauen image for him selfe: he kneeleth before it, he worshippeth it, he prayeth vnto it, and saith, Deliuer me, for thou art my god.

    18 Yet men neither consider nor vnderstande, because their eyes be stopped that they can not see, and their heartes that they can not perceaue.

    19 They ponder not in their mindes, for they haue neither knowledge nor vnderstanding to thinke thus: I haue brent one peece in the fire, I haue baked bread with the coales thereof, I haue rosted fleshe withall, and eaten it: and I wyll nowe of the residue make an abhominable idoll, and fall downe before a rotten peece of wood.

  • Isa 45:16
    72%

    16 Confounded are they all and put to dishonour, thei are gone hence together with shame, euen the makers of images.

  • Isa 2:8
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    8 Their lande also is full of vayne gods, and before the worke of their owne handes they haue bowed them selues, yea euen before the thyng that their owne fingers haue made.

  • Isa 31:7
    72%

    7 For in that day euery man shall cast out his idols of siluer, and his idols of golde, whiche ye haue made with your owne handes vnto your sinne.

  • Isa 42:17
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    17 They are fallen backe, yea and let them be ashamed earnestly that hope in idols, and say to the moulten images, ye are our gods.

  • Isa 44:15
    72%

    15 Which wood serueth for men to burne: Of this he taketh and warmeth hym selfe withall, he maketh a fire of it to bakebread, and maketh also a god therof to honour it, and a grauen image to kneele before it.

  • Ps 92:6
    71%

    6 An vnwise man doth not consider this: and a foole doth not vnderstande it.

  • Deut 27:15
    71%

    15 Cursed be the man that maketh any carued or moulten image, an abhomination vnto the Lorde, the worke of the handes of the craftesman, and putteth it in a secrete place: and all the people shall aunswere and say, Amen.

  • Jer 6:28-29
    2 verses
    71%

    28 For they are all stubborne apostates and fallen away, walking deceiptfully, they are cleane brasse and iron, for they hurt and destroy euery man.

    29 The bellowes are brent in the fire, the leade is not moulten, the melter melteth in vayne, for the euill is not taken away from them.

  • Hos 13:2
    71%

    2 And nowe they sinne more and more, and of their siluer they haue made them molten images after the imaginatios of their owne braynes, that is very idols, and yet all is nothing but the worke of the craftesman: they say one to another, Whiles they sacrifice a man let them kisse the calues.

  • Rom 1:23
    71%

    23 And turned the glorie of the immortall God, vnto an image, made not only after the similitude of a mortal man, but also of birdes, and foure footed beastes, and of crepyng beastes.

  • Isa 46:6
    70%

    6 Take out siluer and gold out of your purses, and way it, and hyre a goldesmith to make a god of it, that men may kneele downe and worship it:

  • Hos 8:6
    70%

    6 For the calfe came from Israel, the workman made it, therfore can it be no God: but euen in peeces shall the calfe of Samaria be broken.

  • Ps 97:7
    70%

    7 Confounded be all they that do seruice vnto carued images: and that do glorie in idols, but O gods, you all shall worshyp hym.

  • Ps 14:1
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    1 To the chiefe musition, a Psalme of Dauid. The foole hath sayde in his heart there is no God: they haue corrupted them selues and done an abhominable worke, there is not one that doth good.

  • Jer 10:3
    70%

    3 Yea all the customes and lawes of the gentiles are nothing but vanitie: They hewe downe a tree in the wood with the handes of the workeman, and fashion it with the axe.

  • Isa 29:16
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    16 Doubtlesse your destruction is in reputation as the potters clay: And doth the worke say of hym that made it, he made not me? And doth an earthen vessell say of hym that fashioned it, he had no vnderstanding?

  • Isa 37:19
    69%

    19 And cast their gods in the fire: for those were no gods, but the workes of mens handes, of wood or stone, therfore haue they destroyed them.

  • Jer 4:22
    69%

    22 Neuerthelesse, this shall come vpon them, because my people is become foolishe, and hath not knowen me: they are the children of foolishnesse, and without any discretion: To do euyll, they haue wit inough: but to do well, they haue no wisdome.

  • Isa 17:8
    69%

    8 As for the aulters which are his owne handy worke he shal not regarde them, and the thynges that his fingers hath made, as groues and images, those shal he not cast his eye vnto.

  • Ps 39:6
    69%

    6 Truely man walketh in a vayne shadowe, truely he and all his do disquiet them selues in vayne: he heapeth vp riches, & can not tel who shal vse them.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    68%

    18 And haue set fire on their gods: For they were no gods, but the worke of the handes of man, euen of wood and stone: and they destroyed them.

  • Ezek 22:18
    68%

    18 Thou sonne of man, the house of Israel is vnto me as drosse: all they are brasse, tinne, iron, and lead in the middest of the furnace, euen drosse of siluer are they.