Bible verse
But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
Jeremiah 10:8 · BSB
The verses around it, from Jeremiah 10.
4 They adorn it with silver and gold and fasten it with hammer and nails, so that it will not totter.
5 Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and neither can they do any good.”
6 There is none like You, O LORD. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.
7 Who would not fear You, O King of nations? This is Your due. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You.
8 But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
9 Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz—the work of a craftsman from the hands of a goldsmith. Their clothes are blue and purple, all fashioned by skilled workers.
10 But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
11 Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”
12 The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
KJV
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.
ASV
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
ERV
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols, it is but a stock.
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