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Jeremiah 10:3

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For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

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Jeremiah 10:3 in other translations

For the customs of the peoples are vanity;
for one cuts a tree out of the forest,
the work of the hands of the workman with the ax.

Jeremiah 10:3 · World English Bible

Jeremiah 10:3 in context

  1. 1Hear ye the word which Jehovah speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
  2. 2thus saith Jehovah, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them.
  3. 3For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
  4. 4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
  5. 5They are like a palm-tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.