Jeremiah 10:5

Authorized King James Version (1611)

They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to do good.

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  • Isa 46:7 : 7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, [one] shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
  • 1 Cor 12:2 : 2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
  • Isa 41:23-24 : 23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye [are] gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold [it] together. 24 Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination [is he that] chooseth you.
  • Hab 2:19 : 19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it [is] laid over with gold and silver, and [there is] no breath at all in the midst of it.
  • Isa 46:1 : 1 ¶ Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages [were] heavy loaden; [they are] a burden to the weary [beast].
  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 ¶ As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in the world, and that [there is] none other God but one.
  • Rev 13:14-15 : 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by [the means of] those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
  • Isa 44:9-9 : 9 ¶ They that make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they [are] their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. 10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image [that] is profitable for nothing?
  • Isa 45:20 : 20 ¶ Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye [that are] escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god [that] cannot save.
  • Ps 115:5-8 : 5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: 6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: 7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. 8 They that make them are like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them.
  • Ps 135:16-18 : 16 They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not; 17 They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there [any] breath in their mouths. 18 They that make them are like unto them: [so is] every one that trusteth in them.

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    3For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

    4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

  • Ps 115:4-8
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    4Their idols [are] silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

    5They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:

    6They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:

    7They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

    8They that make them are like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them.

  • Ps 135:16-18
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    73%

    16They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;

    17They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there [any] breath in their mouths.

    18They that make them are like unto them: [so is] every one that trusteth in them.

  • Isa 46:7
    72%

    7They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, [one] shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

  • Jer 10:8
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    8But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.

  • Ezek 31:14
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    14To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

  • Isa 10:15
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    15Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? [or] shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake [itself] against them that lift it up, [or] as if the staff should lift up [itself, as if it were] no wood.

  • Isa 40:24
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    24Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

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    8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

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    5They [are] not in trouble [as other] men; neither are they plagued like [other] men.

  • Isa 14:8
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    8Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.

  • Jer 17:8
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    8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and [that] spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

  • Ps 28:5
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    5Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

  • Ps 75:5
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    5Lift not up your horn on high: speak [not with] a stiff neck.

  • Isa 1:29-30
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    68%

    29For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

    30For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

  • Ps 82:5
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    5They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

  • Job 21:9
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    9Their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the rod of God upon them.

  • Jer 10:15
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    15They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  • Isa 40:20
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    20He that [is] so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree [that] will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, [that] shall not be moved.

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    12The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

  • Isa 44:9
    68%

    9¶ They that make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they [are] their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

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    6Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto thee, O LORD; thou [art] great, and thy name [is] great in might.

  • Isa 17:8
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    5[A man] was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

  • Judg 9:10-11
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    10And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, [and] reign over us.

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  • Ps 92:14
    68%

    14They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;

  • Isa 44:18
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  • Matt 7:18
    68%

    18‹A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither› [can] ‹a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.›

  • Job 8:10
    67%

    10Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

  • Hab 2:19
    67%

    19Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it [is] laid over with gold and silver, and [there is] no breath at all in the midst of it.

  • Job 14:8
    67%

    8Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

  • Job 24:24
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    24They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all [other], and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

  • Ps 129:7
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    7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

  • Ezek 41:19
    67%

    19So that the face of a man [was] toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: [it was] made through all the house round about.

  • Job 18:16
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    16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

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    10For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

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    19God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.

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    11And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.