Jeremiah 10:14
Every son of earth hath become too brutish to discern, Every goldsmith, hath been put to shame by a graven image,—For a falsehood, is his molten image, Seeing there is no breath in them.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
15Vanity, they are, the handiwork of mockeries,—In the time of their visitation, shall they perish.
Cross References
1 Samuel 5:4And, when they rose up early in the morning of the morrow, lo! Dagon, was lying prostrate on his face to the earth, before the ark of Yahweh—and, the head of Dagon, and both the palms of his hands, had been cut off against the threshold, only, Dagon himself, was left to him.
Psalms 92:6A man that is brutish, cannot know, And, a dullard, cannot discern this:—
Psalms 97:7Let all who serve an image, be ashamed, They who boast themselves in things of nought, Bow down unto him, all ye gods.
Psalms 115:8Like unto them, shall be they who make them, Every one who trusteth in them.
Proverbs 30:2Surely, more brutish, am, I, than any man, nor doth, the understanding of a son of earth, pertain to me;
Isaiah 44:11Lo! all his partners, turn pale, Even, the artificers themselves, are of the sons of earth,—Let them gather themselves together—all of them. Let them take their stand, Let them dread, and turn pale, 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 →