Jeremiah 10:5

World English Bible (2000)

They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good."

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  • Isa 46:7 : 7 They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands, from its place it shall not move: yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
  • 1 Cor 12:2 : 2 You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.
  • Isa 41:23-24 : 23 Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together. 24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.
  • Hab 2:19 : 19 Woe to him who says to the wood, 'Awake!' or to the mute stone, 'Arise!' Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in its midst.
  • Isa 46:1 : 1 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols are on the animals, and on the livestock: the things that you carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary [animal].
  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
  • Rev 13:14-15 : 14 He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast; saying to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived. 15 It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn't worship the image of the beast to be killed.
  • Isa 44:9-9 : 9 Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don't see, nor know, that they may be disappointed. 10 Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?
  • Isa 45:20 : 20 "Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can't save.
  • Ps 115:5-8 : 5 They have mouths, but they don't speak. They have eyes, but they don't see. 6 They have ears, but they don't hear. They have noses, but they don't smell. 7 They have hands, but they don't feel. They have feet, but they don't walk, neither do they speak through their throat. 8 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.
  • Ps 135:16-18 : 16 They have mouths, but they can't speak. They have eyes, but they can't see. 17 They have ears, but they can't hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths. 18 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

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  • Jer 10:3-4
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    78%

    3 For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

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

  • Ps 115:4-8
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    77%

    4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

    5 They have mouths, but they don't speak. They have eyes, but they don't see.

    6 They have ears, but they don't hear. They have noses, but they don't smell.

    7 They have hands, but they don't feel. They have feet, but they don't walk, neither do they speak through their throat.

    8 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

  • Ps 135:16-18
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    73%

    16 They have mouths, but they can't speak. They have eyes, but they can't see.

    17 They have ears, but they can't hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

    18 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

  • Isa 46:7
    72%

    7 They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands, from its place it shall not move: yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

  • Jer 10:8
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    8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

  • Ezek 31:14
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    14 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.

  • Isa 10:15
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    15 Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

  • Isa 40:24
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    24 They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

  • Ezek 31:8
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    8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.

  • Ps 73:5
    69%

    5 They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

  • Isa 14:8
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    8 Yes, the fir trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, "Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us."

  • Jer 17:8
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    8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its 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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    5 Because they don't respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

  • Ps 75:5
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    5 Don't lift up your horn on high. Don't speak with a stiff neck."

  • Isa 1:29-30
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    29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

    30 For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.

  • Ps 82:5
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    5 They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  • Job 21:9
    68%

    9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

  • Jer 10:15
    68%

    15 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  • Isa 40:20
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    20 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.

  • Ps 92:12
    68%

    12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

  • Isa 44:9
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    9 Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don't see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

  • Jer 10:6
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    6 There is none like you, Yahweh; you are great, and your name is great in might.

  • Isa 17:8
    68%

    8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the incense altars.

  • Ps 74:5
    68%

    5 They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.

  • Judg 9:10-11
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    68%

    10 "The trees said to the fig tree, 'Come and reign over us.'

    11 "But the fig tree said to them, 'Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?'

  • Ps 92:14
    68%

    14 They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

  • Isa 44:18
    68%

    18 They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.

  • Matt 7:18
    68%

    18 A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.

  • Job 8:10
    67%

    10 Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

  • Hab 2:19
    67%

    19 Woe to him who says to the wood, 'Awake!' or to the mute stone, 'Arise!' Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in its midst.

  • Job 14:8
    67%

    8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

  • Job 24:24
    67%

    24 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

  • Ps 129:7
    67%

    7 with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

  • Ezek 41:19
    67%

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

  • Job 18:16
    67%

    16 His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

  • Amos 3:10
    67%

    10 "Indeed they don't know to do right," says Yahweh, "Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces."

  • Jer 5:28
    67%

    28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.

  • Jer 12:2
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    2 You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

  • Ps 55:19
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    19 God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, who don't fear God.

  • Ezek 19:11
    66%

    11 It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.