Jeremiah 10:3
For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
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.
Note customs…: Heb. statutes, or, ordinances are vanity
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.
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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- customs
- Heb. statutes, or ordinances, are vanity.
- Jeremiah 10:8; Jeremiah 2:5; Leviticus 18:30; 1 Kings 18:26–28; Matthew 6:7; Romans 1:21; 1 Peter 1:18
- one
- Isaiah 40:19–31; Isaiah 44:9–20; Isaiah 45:20; Hosea 8:4–6; Habakkuk 2:18, 19