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Jeremiah 10:3

What does Jeremiah 10:3 mean?

A plain-English look at Jeremiah 10:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

For the statutes of the peoples are vanity, For a tree from a forest hath one cut, Work of the hands of an artificer, with an axe,

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

For the statutes of the peoples are vanity; for [it is] a tree cut out of the forest, worked with a chisel by the hands of the artizan;

Context

v.2thus saith Jehovah, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them.

v.3This passage

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

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 40:19

    The image, a workman hath cast it, and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains.

  • Isaiah 45:20

    Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

  • Hosea 8:4

    They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

  • Isaiah 44:9

    They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses see not, nor know: that they may be put to shame.

  • 1 Peter 1:18

    knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;

  • 1 Kings 18:26

    And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped about the altar which was made.

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