Jeremiah 10:8

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Isa 41:29 : 29 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.
  • Jer 10:14 : 14 Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
  • Hab 2:18 : 18 "What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
  • Zech 10:2 : 2 For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.
  • Rom 1:21-22 : 21 Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
  • Jer 51:17-18 : 17 Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 18 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
  • Hos 4:12 : 12 My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.
  • Ps 115:8 : 8 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.
  • Ps 135:18 : 18 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.
  • Isa 44:19 : 19 No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, "I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?"
  • Jer 2:27 : 27 who tell wood, 'You are my father;' and a stone, 'You have brought me out:' for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, 'Arise, and save us.'
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 "For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."

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  • Jer 10:14-15
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    14Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

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

  • Jer 51:17-18
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    17Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

    18They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  • Isa 41:29
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    29Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

  • Isa 44:9-11
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    9Everyone 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.

    10Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?

    11Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They will fear. They will be put to shame together.

  • Deut 32:28
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    28For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

  • Jer 10:3-5
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    3For 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.

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

    5They 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."

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

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

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

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

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

  • Hab 2:18-19
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    18"What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

    19Woe 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 2:8
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    8Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.

  • Jer 10:9
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    9There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men.

  • Ps 115:7-8
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    7They have hands, but they don't feel. They have feet, but they don't walk, neither do they speak through their throat.

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

  • Ps 94:8
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    8Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

  • Jer 4:22
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    22"For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."

  • Isa 45:16
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    16They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.

  • Jer 8:8-9
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    8How do you say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.

    9The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what kind of wisdom is in them?

  • Ps 92:6
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    6A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:

  • Hos 8:4
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    4They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn't approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.

  • Jer 2:27
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    27who tell wood, 'You are my father;' and a stone, 'You have brought me out:' for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, 'Arise, and save us.'

  • Job 30:8
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    8They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.

  • Prov 14:24
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    24The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.

  • Isa 40:17-20
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    17All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

    18To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

    19A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.

    20He 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.

  • Rom 1:22
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    22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

  • Hos 4:12
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    12My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.

  • Jer 5:4
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    4Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.

  • Isa 46:6
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    6Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down--yes, they worship.

  • Hos 8:6
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    6For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

  • Isa 44:18
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    18They 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.

  • Prov 14:8
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    8The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

  • Isa 41:24
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    24Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

  • Ps 53:1
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    1The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

  • Isa 10:15
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    15Should 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.

  • Jer 10:7
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    7Who should not fear you, King of the nations? For it appertains to you; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like you.

  • Jer 5:21
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    21'Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:

  • Eccl 7:6
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    6For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.