Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.
New American Standard Bible
In their discipline of
King James Version
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Holman Bible
instructed by worthless idols
made of wood!
International Standard Version
Everyone is stupid and senseless. They follow worthless instruction from a piece of wood!
A Conservative Version
But they are together brutish and foolish, the instruction of idols! It is but a block of wood.
American Standard Version
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
Amplified
But they are altogether irrational and stupid and foolish
In their discipline of delusion—their idol is [only] wood [it is ridiculous, empty and worthless]!
Bible in Basic English
But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
Julia Smith Translation
And in one they will become brutish, and they will be foolish: the tree itself a correction of vanities.
King James 2000
But they are altogether senseless and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{At the same time} they are stupid and foolish, [in the] instruction of idols, it [is] wood.
Modern King James verseion
But they are all at once foolish and animal-like; the tree is an example of vanities.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They are altogether unlearned and unwise. All their cunning is but vanity:
NET Bible
The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!
New Heart English Bible
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols. it is but a stock.
The Emphasized Bible
But at once, do they become brutish and stupid, - An example of utmost vanity, is, a tree!
Webster
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
World English Bible
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
Youngs Literal Translation
And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities is the tree itself.
Interlinear
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Ba`ar
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 10:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
False Gods Contrasted With The Creator
7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? For to thee doth it appertain; for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee. 8 But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock. 9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artizan and of the hands of the founder; blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of skilful men.
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 41:29
Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nought, their molten images are wind and emptiness.
Jeremiah 10:14
Every man is become brutish, bereft of knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Habakkuk 2:18
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it? the molten image, and the teacher of falsehood, that the maker of his work dependeth thereon, to make dumb idols?
Zechariah 10:2
For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams: they comfort in vain. Therefore they have gone away as a flock, they are in distress, because there is no shepherd.
Psalm 115:8
They that make them are like unto them, every one that confideth in them.
Psalm 135:18
They that make them are like unto them, every one that confideth in them.
Isaiah 44:19
And none taketh it to heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire, and have also baked bread upon the coals thereof, I have roasted flesh, and eaten it, and with the rest thereof shall I make an abomination? shall I bow down to a block of wood?
Jeremiah 2:27
saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth; for they have turned the back unto me, and not the face; and in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us!
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have no intelligence; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Jeremiah 51:17-18
Every man is become brutish, so as to have no knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Hosea 4:12
My people ask counsel of their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredoms causeth them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God:
Romans 1:21-22
Because, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened: