Jeremiah 10:4

Jeremiah chapter 10 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.3For 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.

v.4This passage

v.5They are like a palm-tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.

Cross references

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

  • Psalms 135:15

    The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands.

  • Psalms 115:4

    Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands.

  • Isaiah 44:12

    The smithmakethan axe, and worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with his strong arm: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth; he drinketh no water, and is faint.

  • Isaiah 46:7

    They bear it upon the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it standeth, from its place shall it not remove: yea, one may cry unto it, yet can it not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

  • Isaiah 41:6

    They help every one his neighbor; and every one saith to his brother, Be of good courage.

  • Isaiah 40:19

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