Jeremiah 10:14
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.
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- Isa 46:7-8 : 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. 8 Remember this, and show yourselves men; bring it again to mind, you transgressors.
- Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
- 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.
- Hab 2:18-19 : 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? 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 the midst of it.
- Isa 44:18-20 : 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. 19 None calls to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? 20 He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
- Ps 115:4-8 : 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 : 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.
- Prov 30:2 : 2 "Surely I am the most ignorant man, And don't have a man's understanding.
- Isa 42:17 : 17 They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly disappointed, who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, You are our gods.
- Isa 44:11 : 11 Behold, all his fellows shall be disappointed; and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; they shall fear, they shall be put to shame together.
- Ps 14:2 : 2 Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, To see if there were any who did understand, Who did seek after God.
- Ps 92:6 : 6 A senseless man doesn't know, Neither does a fool understand this:
- Ps 94:8 : 8 Consider, you senseless among the people; You fools, when will you be wise?
- Ps 97:7 : 7 Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, Who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!
- Isa 45:16 : 16 They shall be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols.
- Rom 1:22-23 : 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.
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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.
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9 Those who fashion an engraved image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses don't see, nor know: that they may be disappointed.
10 Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
11 Behold, all his fellows shall be disappointed; and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; they shall fear, they shall be put to shame together.
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15 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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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?
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 the midst of it.
- Jer 10:8-92 verses79%
8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
9 There 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.
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15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.
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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18 To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare to him?
19 The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.
20 He who is too impoverished for [such] an offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks to him a skillful workman to set up an engraved image, that shall not be moved.
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29 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity [and] nothing; their molten images are wind and confusion.
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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.
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4 Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.
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20 Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?
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17 The residue of it he makes a god, even his engraved image; he falls down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me; for you are my god.
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.
19 None calls to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
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16 They shall be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols.
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8 Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, That which their own fingers have made.
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7 For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made to you for a sin.
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17 They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly disappointed, who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, You are our gods.
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15 Then shall it be for a man to burn; and he takes of it, and warms himself; yes, he kindles it, and bakes bread: yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved image, and falls down to it.
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6 A senseless man doesn't know, Neither does a fool understand this:
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15 Cursed be the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. All the people shall answer and say, Amen.
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28 They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
29 The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.
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2 Now they sin more and more, And have made themselves molten images of their silver, Even idols according to their own understanding, All of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, "They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves."
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23 and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.
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6 Some 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.
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6 For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; Indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
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7 Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, Who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!
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1 > The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.
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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.
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16 You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him who made it, He didn't make me; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, He has no understanding?
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19 and have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
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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 wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
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8 They shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.
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6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
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18 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
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18 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.