Jeremiah 10:5

Jeremiah chapter 10 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

They 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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

They 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.

Context

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

v.5This passage

v.6There is none like unto thee, O Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

Cross references

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

  • Psalms 115:5

    They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not;

  • Psalms 135:16

    They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not;

  • Revelation 13:14

    And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who hath the stroke of the sword and lived.

  • Habakkuk 2:19

    Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

  • 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.

  • 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.