Jeremiah 10:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

But, altogether they dote, and are foolish: for the stocke is a doctrine of vanitie.

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  • Isa 41:29 : 29 Beholde, they are all vanitie: their worke is of nothing, their images are wind and confusion.
  • Jer 10:14 : 14 Euery man is a beast by his owne knowledge: euery founder is confounded by the grauen image: for his melting is but falsehood, and there is no breath therein.
  • Hab 2:18 : 18 What profiteth the image? for the maker thereof hath made it an image, and a teacher of lies, though he that made it, trust therein, when he maketh dumme idoles.
  • Zech 10:2 : 2 Surely the idols haue spoken vanitie, and the southsayers haue seene a lye, and the dreamers haue tolde a vaine thing: they comfort in vaine: therefore they went away as sheepe: they were troubled, because there was no shepheard.
  • Rom 1:21-22 : 21 Because that when they knewe God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankefull, but became vaine in their thoughtes, and their foolish heart was full of darkenesse. 22 When they professed themselues to be wise, they became fooles.
  • Jer 51:17-18 : 17 Euery man is a beast by his owne knowledge: euery founder is confounded by the grauen image: for his melting is but falsehood, and there is no breath therein. 18 They are vanitie, and the worke of errors: in the time of their visitation they shal perish.
  • Hos 4:12 : 12 My people aske counsell at their stockes, and their staffe teacheth them: for the spirite of fornications hath caused them to erre, and they haue gone a whoring from vnder their God.
  • Ps 115:8 : 8 They that make them are like vnto them: so are all that trust in them.
  • Ps 135:18 : 18 They that make them, are like vnto them: so are all that trust in them.
  • Isa 44:19 : 19 And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor vnderstanding to say, I haue burnt halfe of it, euen in the fire, and haue baked bread also vpon the coles thereof: I haue rosted flesh, and eaten it, and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I bowe to the stocke of a tree?
  • Jer 2:27 : 27 Saying to a tree, Thou art my father, and to a stone, Thou hast begotten me: for they haue turned their back vnto me, & not their face: but in ye time of their troble they wil say, Arise, & help vs.
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people is foolish, they haue not knowen me: they are foolish children, and haue none vnderstanding: they are wise to doe euill, but to doe well they haue no knowledge.

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  • Jer 10:14-15
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    14Euery man is a beast by his owne knowledge: euery founder is confounded by the grauen image: for his melting is but falsehood, and there is no breath therein.

    15They are vanitie, and the worke of errours: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  • Jer 51:17-18
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    17Euery man is a beast by his owne knowledge: euery founder is confounded by the grauen image: for his melting is but falsehood, and there is no breath therein.

    18They are vanitie, and the worke of errors: in the time of their visitation they shal perish.

  • 29Beholde, they are all vanitie: their worke is of nothing, their images are wind and confusion.

  • Isa 44:9-11
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    9All they that make an image, are vanitie, and their delectable things shall nothing profite: & they are their owne witnesses, that they see not nor know: therefore they shalbe confounded.

    10Who hath made a god, or molten an image, that is profitable for nothing?

    11Beholde, all that are of the felowship thereof, shall be confounded: for the workemen themselues are men: let them all be gathered together, and stand vp, yet they shall feare, and be confounded together.

  • 28For they are a nation voide of counsel, neither is there any vnderstanding in them.

  • Jer 10:3-5
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    3For the customes of the people are vaine: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest (which is the worke of the handes of the carpenter) with the axe,

    4And another decketh it with siluer, and with golde: they fasten it with nailes, and hammers, that it fall not.

    5The idoles stande vp as the palme tree, but speake not: they are borne because they cannot go feare them not, for they cannot do euill, neither can they do good.

  • 4Their idoles are siluer and golde, euen the worke of mens hands.

  • Ps 135:15-18
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    15The idoles of the heathen are siluer and golde, euen the worke of mens handes.

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

    17They haue eares and heare not, neither is there any breath in their mouth.

    18They that make them, are like vnto them: so are all that trust in them.

  • Hab 2:18-19
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    18What profiteth the image? for the maker thereof hath made it an image, and a teacher of lies, though he that made it, trust therein, when he maketh dumme idoles.

    19Wo vnto him that sayth to the wood, Awake, and to the dumme stone, Rise vp, it shall teach thee: beholde, it is layde ouer with golde and siluer, and there is no breath in it.

  • 8Their land also was full of idols: they worshipped the worke of their owne hands, which their owne fingers haue made.

  • 9Siluer plates are brought from Tarshish, & golde from Vphaz, for the worke of the workeman, and the handes of the founder: the blewe silke, and the purple is their clothing: all these things are made by cunning men.

  • Ps 115:7-8
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    7They haue handes and touche not: they haue feete and walke not: neither make they a sound with their throte.

    8They that make them are like vnto them: so are all that trust in them.

  • 8Vnderstande ye vnwise among the people: and ye fooles, when will ye be wise?

  • 22For my people is foolish, they haue not knowen me: they are foolish children, and haue none vnderstanding: they are wise to doe euill, but to doe well they haue no knowledge.

  • 16All they shalbe ashamed and also confounded: they shall goe to confusion together, that are the makers of images.

  • Jer 8:8-9
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    8Howe doe yee say, Wee are wise, and the Lawe of the Lorde is with vs? Loe, certeinly in vaine made hee it, the penne of the scribes is in vaine.

    9The wise men are ashamed: they are afraid and taken. loe, they haue reiected the word of the Lorde, and what wisdome is in them?

  • 6An vnwise man knoweth it not, and a foole doeth not vnderstand this,

  • 4They haue set vp a King, but not by me: they haue made princes, and I knew it not: of their siluer and their gold haue they made them idoles: therefore shall they be destroyed.

  • 27Saying to a tree, Thou art my father, and to a stone, Thou hast begotten me: for they haue turned their back vnto me, & not their face: but in ye time of their troble they wil say, Arise, & help vs.

  • 8They were the children of fooles and the children of villaines, which were more vile then the earth.

  • 24The crowne of the wise is their riches, and the follie of fooles is foolishnes.

  • Isa 40:17-20
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    17All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him, lesse then nothing, and vanitie.

    18To whom then wil ye liken God? or what similitude will ye set vp vnto him?

    19The workeman melteth an image, or the goldsmith beateth it out in golde, or the goldesmith maketh siluer plates.

    20Doeth not the poore chuse out a tree that will not rot, for an oblation? he seeketh also vnto him a cunning workeman, to prepare an image, that shall not be moued.

  • 22When they professed themselues to be wise, they became fooles.

  • 12My people aske counsell at their stockes, and their staffe teacheth them: for the spirite of fornications hath caused them to erre, and they haue gone a whoring from vnder their God.

  • 4Therefore I saide, Surely they are poore, they are foolish, for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the iudgement of their God.

  • 6They draw gold out of the bagge & weigh siluer in the balance, and hire a goldsmith to make a god of it, and they bowe downe, and worship it.

  • 6For it came euen from Israel: the workeman made it, therefore it is not God: but the calfe of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

  • 18They haue not knowen, nor vnderstand: for God hath shut their eyes that they cannot see, and their heartes, that they cannot vnderstand.

  • 8The wisdome of ye prudent is to vnderstand his way: but the foolishnes of the fooles is deceite.

  • 24Beholde, ye are of no value, and your making is of naught: man hath chosen an abomination by them.

  • 1To him that excelleth on Mahalath. A Psalme of Dauid to giue instruction. The foole hath saide in his heart, There is no God. they haue corrupted & done abominable wickednes: there is none that doeth good.

  • 15Shall the axe boast it selfe against him that heweth therewith? or shall the sawe exalt it selfe against him that moueth it? as if the rod shoulde lift vp it selfe against him that taketh it vp, or the staffe should exalt it selfe, as it were no wood.

  • 7Who would not feare thee, O King of nations? For to thee appertaineth the dominion: for among all the wise men of the Gentiles, and in al their kingdomes there is none like thee.

  • 21Heare nowe this, O foolish people, and without vnderstanding, which haue eyes and see not, which haue eares and heare not.

  • 6(7:8) For like ye noyse of the thornes vnder the pot, so is the laughter of the foole: this also is vanitie.