Jeremiah 10:14
Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
15They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.
Cross References
1 Samuel 5:4When they arose early on the following morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the LORD’s ark; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off on the threshold. Only Dagon’s torso was intact.
Psalms 92:6A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:
Psalms 97:7Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!
Psalms 115:8Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.
Proverbs 30:2“Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding.
Isaiah 44:11Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They will fear. They will be put to shame together.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 10:2-17
Solemn Charge to Israel; The Folly of Idolatry. ( b. c. 606.) 1 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 2 Thus saith the Lord , Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 5… Read the whole commentary →