Parallel Verses
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.
Darby Translation
But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.
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 the Gentiles? for unto thee does it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the Gentiles and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
8
In their discipline of
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 41:29
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
Jeremiah 10:14
Every man is carnal in his knowledge: let every founder be ashamed of his graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no spirit in them.
Habakkuk 2:18
Of what profit is the graven image that its maker has sculpted; the molten image, that teaches lies, so that in making dumb images the maker trusts in his work?
Zechariah 10:2
For the idols have spoken vanity and the diviners have seen a lie and have told vain dreams; they comfort in vain; therefore they went their way like sheep; they were humbled because there was no shepherd.
Psalm 115:8
Let those that make them become like unto them, and every one that trusts in them.
Psalm 135:18
Let those that make them become like unto them and every one that trusts in them.
Isaiah 44:19
He does not return to his right mind; he does not have knowledge nor intelligence to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; I have also baked bread upon the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten it and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? Do I have to humble myself before the trunk of a tree?
Jeremiah 2:27
saying to a piece of firewood, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they say, Arise and deliver us.
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people are foolish; the ignorant sons with no understanding have not known me; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Jeremiah 51:17-18
Every man has become carnal and is without knowledge; let every founder be ashamed of 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 wooden idol, and their stick declares unto them; for the spirit of whoredoms has caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring under their gods.
Romans 1:21-22
because having known God, they did not glorify him as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.