Jeremiah 10:4
Jeremiah chapter 10 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
KJV
King James Version · 1611They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901They 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.