Jeremiah 10:8

But at once, do they become brutish and stupid,—An example of utmost vanity, is, a tree!

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

In Context

7Who would not revere thee, O King of nations? For, thee, doth it beseem; Forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations And throughout all their royal estate, None, there is like unto thee.

9Silver spread into plates, from Tarshish is brought, And gold, from Uphaz, Work for the craftsman and for the hands of the smith,—Blue and purple, is their clothing, Work for the skilled, are they all.

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Cross References

Psalms 135:18Like unto them, shall be they who make them, every one who trusteth in them.

Isaiah 44:19And no one reflecteth—There is neither knowledge nor discernment—to say, Half thereof, have I burned up in the fire Moreover also I have baked, on the coals thereof, bread, I roasted flesh, and have been eating,—And of the remainder thereof, an abomination, shall I make? And, to a log of wood, shall I pay adoration?

Jeremiah 4:22Surely, perverse, is my people Me, have they not known, Foolish sons, they are, Yea without understanding, they are: Wise, they are to commit wickedness, But how to do well, they know not!

Jeremiah 51:17Every son of earth had become too brutish to know,—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:

Habakkuk 2:18What hath a carved image, profited, though the fashioner thereof, carved it? a molten image, and a teacher of falsehood,—though the fashioner of his fashioned thing trusted therein? that men should make Dumb Nonentities!

Romans 1:21Inasmuch as, having come to know God, not, as God, did they glorify him, or give him thanks, but were made fruitless in their reasonings, and darkened was their undiscerning heart,

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 →

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