Jeremiah 10:8

In 10 translations

BSB

But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

KJV

But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.altogether: Heb. in one, or, at once

WEB

But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.

ASV

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

LSV

And as one they are brutish and foolish, || An instruction of vanities [is] the tree itself.

YLT

And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities [is] the tree itself.

DBY

But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.

DRC

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

GNV

But, altogether they dote, and are foolish: for the stocke is a doctrine of vanitie.

JPS

But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the vanities by which they are instructed are but a stock;

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וּבְאַחַ֖ת יִבְעֲר֣וּ וְיִכְסָ֑לוּ מוּסַ֥ר הֲבָלִ֖ים עֵ֥ץ הֽוּא׃

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• Zechariah 10:2For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for lack of a shepherd.
• Jeremiah 10:14Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
• Romans 1:21–22For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,
• Isaiah 41:29See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
• Psalms 115:8Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
• Habakkuk 2:18What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it— or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
• Jeremiah 51:17–18Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them. They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of…
• Psalms 135:18Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
• Hosea 4:12My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.
• Jeremiah 4:22“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
• Isaiah 44:19And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest…
• Jeremiah 2:27say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble they beg, ‘Rise up and save us!’

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