Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And in one they will become brutish, and they will be foolish: the tree itself a correction of vanities.
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.
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 shall not fear thee, thou king of the nations? for to thee he shall come: for among all the wise of the nations, and among all their kings, from none like thee. 8 And in one they will become brutish, and they will be foolish: the tree itself a correction of vanities. 9 Silver beaten out shall be brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and the hands of the founder: cerulean purple and red purple their clothing: they all are the work of the wise.
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 41:29
Behold, all of them, nothing; their works are no more: wind and emptiness are their libations.
Jeremiah 10:14
Every man was brutish from knowledge: every founder was ashamed from his carved image; for his molten image a falsehood, and no spirit in them.
Habakkuk 2:18
What profited the carved image that he forming it carved it? the molten image and he teaching falsehood, that the former of his forming trusted upon it to make nothings being dumb?
Zechariah 10:2
For the family gods spake vanity, and the diviners saw falsehood, and they will speak dreams of falsehood they will comfort in vain: for this, they removed as a flock, they were afflicted for there was no shepherd.
Psalm 115:8
They making them shall be as they; all that trusted in them.
Psalm 135:18
They making them shall be as they: every one who trusted in them.
Isaiah 44:19
And none will set to his heart; and not knowledge, and not understanding to say, Half of it I burnt in the fire; and also I baked bread upon its coals; I will roast flesh and eat: and its remainder shall I make for an abomination? shall I fall down to a trunk of wood?
Jeremiah 2:27
Saying to the wood, Thou my father; and to the stone, Thou didst bring me forth: for they turned to me the back of the neck and not their face: and in the time of their evil they will say, Arise, and save us.
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people are foolish, they knew me not; foolish sons are they and they not understanding; wise are they to do evil, and to do good they knew not
Jeremiah 51:17-18
Every man was brutish from knowledge; every founder was ashamed from his carved image: for his founding is a falsehood, and no spirit in them.
Hosea 4:12
My people will ask in their counsel, and with their rod they will announce to them: for the spirit of fornications caused to err, and they will commit fornication from under their God.
Romans 1:21-22
Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened.