Jeremiah 10:8
Good News Translation
All of them are stupid and foolish. What can they learn from wooden idols?

New Revised Standard Version
They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction given by idols is no better than wood!

Contemporary English Version
Idols are worthless, and anyone who worships them is a fool!

New American Bible
One and all they are stupid and senseless, the instruction from nonentities—only wood!

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall be all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They shall be all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood.

altogether.

Jeremiah 10:14 Every man is become a fool for knowledge, every artist is confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there is no spirit in them.

Jeremiah 51:17,18 Every man is become foolish by his knowledge: every founder is confounded by his idol, for what he hath cast is a lie, and there is no breath in them. . . .

Psalm 115:8 Let them that make them become like unto them: and all such as trust in them.

Psalm 135:18 Let them that make them be like to them: and every one that trusteth in them.

Isaiah 41:29 Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.

Habakkuk 2:18 What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath trusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols.

Zechariah 10:2 For the idols have spoken what was unprofitable, and the diviners have seen a lie, and the dreamers have spoken vanity: they comforted in vain: therefore they were led away as a flock: they shall be afflicted, because they have no shepherd.

Romans 1:21,22 Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was darkened. . . .

the stock.

Jeremiah 2:17 Hath not this been done to thee, because thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God at that time, when he led thee by the way?

Isaiah 44:19 They do not consider in their mind, nor know, nor have the thought to say: I have burnt part of it in the fire, and I have baked bread upon the coals thereof: I have broiled flesh and have eaten, and of the residue thereof shall I make an idol? shall I fall down before the stock of a tree?

Hosea 4:12 My people have consulted their stocks, and their staff hath declared unto them: for the spirit of fornication hath deceived them, and they have committed fornication against their God.

Context
The Sovereignty of God
7Who shall not fear thee, O king of nations? for thine is the glory: among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms there is none like unto thee. 8They shall be all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood.9Silver spread into plates is brought from Tharsis, and gold from Ophaz: the work of the artificer, and of the hand of the coppersmith: violet and purple is their clothing: all these things are the work of artificers.…
Cross References
Isaiah 44:18
They have not known, nor understood: for their eyes are covered that they may not see, and that they may not understand with their heart.

Jeremiah 3:9
And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land, and played the harlot with stones and with stocks.

Jeremiah 4:22
For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 5:4
But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God.

Jeremiah 10:14
Every man is become a fool for knowledge, every artist is confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there is no spirit in them.

Jonah 2:8
When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come to thee, unto the holy temple.

Habakkuk 2:18
What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath trusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols.

Jeremiah 10:7
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