Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
With gold and with silver they will beautify; with nails and with hammers they will make firm and it will not move.
New American Standard Bible
They
So that it will not totter.
King James Version
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Holman Bible
It is fastened with hammer and nails,
so it won’t totter.
International Standard Version
They decorate it with silver and gold. They secure it with nails and hammers so it won't totter.
A Conservative Version
They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.
American Standard Version
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Amplified
“They adorn the idol with silver and with gold;
They fasten it with hammers and nails
So that it will not fall apart.
Bible in Basic English
They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved.
Darby Translation
they deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
King James 2000
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it moves not.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He decorates it with silver and gold, they strengthen it with nails and hammers, so that it does not stagger.
Modern King James verseion
They adorn it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and hammers, so that it will not wobble.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
they cover it over with gold or silver; they fasten it with nails and hammers, that it move not.
NET Bible
He decorates it with overlays of silver and gold. He uses hammer and nails to fasten it together so that it will not fall over.
New Heart English Bible
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.
The Emphasized Bible
With silver and with gold, he decketh it, - With nails and with hammers, they fasten them, that it may not totter.
Webster
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it may not move.
World English Bible
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.
Youngs Literal Translation
With silver and with gold they beautify it, With nails and with hammers they fix it, And it doth not stumble.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 10:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
False Gods Contrasted With The Creator
3 For the laws of the peoples, this vanity: for they cut down a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. 4 With gold and with silver they will beautify; with nails and with hammers they will make firm and it will not move. 5 They are of turned work, as the palm tree, and they shall not speak; being lifted up they shall be lifted up, for they shall not mount up. Ye shall not be afraid of them, for they will not do evil, and also doing good is not with them.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 40:19-20
The artificer cast the carved image, and the founder will spread it out with gold, and he smelted chains of silver.
Psalm 115:4
Their images are silver and gold, the work of man's hands.
Psalm 135:15
The images of the nation are silver and gold, the work of man's hands.
Isaiah 41:6-7
They will help a man his neighbor, and he will say to his brother, Be strong.
Isaiah 44:12
The workman of iron with an axe also worked with coal, and he will cleave it with hammers, and will work with the arm of his strength: also he hungered and no strength: he drank not water and was wearied.
Isaiah 46:7
They will lift him up upon the shoulder, they will carry him, they will set him down in his place and he will stand; from his place he shall not depart: also he will cry out to him and he will not answer; he will not save him from his straits