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28 And (A)there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, (B)that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

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18 and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, (A)but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.

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10 (A)Who fashions a god or casts an idol that is profitable for nothing? 11 (B)Behold, all his companions shall be put to shame, and the craftsmen are only human. Let them all assemble, let them stand forth. They shall be terrified; they shall be put to shame together.

12 (C)The ironsmith takes a cutting tool and works it over the coals. He fashions it with hammers and works it with his strong arm. He becomes hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water and is faint. 13 The carpenter stretches a line; he marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes and marks it with a compass. (D)He shapes it into the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house. 14 (E)He cuts down cedars, or he chooses a cypress tree or an oak and lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a cedar and the rain nourishes it. 15 Then it becomes fuel for a man. He takes a part of it and warms himself; he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Also he makes a god and worships it; he makes it an idol and falls down before it. 16 Half of it he burns in the fire. Over the half he eats meat; he roasts it and is satisfied. Also he warms himself and says, “Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire!” 17 And the rest of it he makes into a god, his idol, and falls down to it and worships it. (F)He prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god!”

18 They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand. 19 No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an (G)abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?” 20 (H)He feeds on (I)ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not (J)a lie in my right hand?”

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(A)for the customs of the peoples are vanity.[a]
(B)A tree from the forest is cut down
    and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
(C)They decorate it with silver and gold;
    (D)they fasten it with hammer and nails
    so that it cannot move.
Their idols[b] are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
    and (E)they cannot speak;
(F)they have to be carried,
    for they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
    (G)for they cannot do evil,
    neither is it in them to do good.”
(H)There is none like you, O Lord;
    you are great, and your name is great in might.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 10:3 Or vapour, or mist
  2. Jeremiah 10:5 Hebrew They

20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, (A)did not repent of (B)the works of their hands nor give up worshipping (C)demons (D)and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk,

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