Jeremiah 10:8

Amplified Bible

But they are altogether irrational and stupid and foolish In their discipline of delusion—their idol is [only] wood [it is ridiculous, empty and worthless]!

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They are both stupid and foolish,instructed by worthless idolsmade of wood!

Hebrew Names Version
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

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

English Standard Version
They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!

New American Standard Bible
But they are altogether stupid and foolish; The instruction from idols is nothing but wood!

New Century Version
Those wise people are stupid and foolish. Their teachings come from worthless wooden idols.

World English Bible
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But, altogether they dote, and are foolish: for the stocke is a doctrine of vanitie.

Legacy Standard Bible
But they are altogether senseless and foolish;They are in a discipline of vanities—it is mere wood!

Berean Standard Bible
But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

Contemporary English Version
Idols are worthless, and anyone who worships them is a fool!

Complete Jewish Bible
One and all they are boorish and stupid; the teaching of their nothings is a piece of wood!

Darby Translation
But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.

Easy-to-Read Version
All the people of the other nations are stupid and foolish. Their teachings come from worthless wooden statues.

George Lamsa Translation
But altogether the vain doctrines of wooden image worship shall be utterly destroyed and consumed.

Good News Translation
All of them are stupid and foolish. What can they learn from wooden idols?

Lexham English Bible
At the same time they are stupid and foolish, in the instruction of idols, it is wood.

Literal Translation
But they are at once foolish and animal like; their tree is an instruction of vanities.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They are all together vnlerned and vnwise, All their connynge is but vanite:

American Standard Version
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

Bible in Basic English
But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the vanities by which they are instructed are but a stock;

King James Version (1611)
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stocke is a doctrine of vanities.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
They are altogether brutishe and vnwise in this one thing: wood is the teaching of vanitie.

English Revised Version
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols, it is but a stock.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei schulen be preued, vnwise and foolis togidere; the techyng of her vanyte is a tre.

Update Bible Version
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

Webster's Bible Translation
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.

New English Translation
The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!

New King James Version
But they are altogether dull-hearted and foolish; A wooden idol is a worthless doctrine.

New Living Translation
People who worship idols are stupid and foolish. The things they worship are made of wood!

New Life Bible
They are all poor thinkers and foolish. What can they learn from a false god of wood?

New Revised Standard
They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction given by idols is no better than wood!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But at once, do they become brutish and stupid, - An example of utmost vanity, is, a tree!

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall be all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood.

Revised Standard Version
They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!

Young's Literal Translation
And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities [is] the tree itself.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But they are altogether stupid and foolish In their discipline of delusion—their idol is wood!

Contextual Overview

¹Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel. ²Thus says the LORD, "Do not learn the way of the [pagan] nations, And do not be terrified and distressed by the signs of the heavens Although the pagans are terrified by them; ³For the customs and decrees of the peoples are [mere] delusion [exercises in futility]; It is only wood which one cuts from the forest [to make a god], The work of the hands of the craftsman with the axe or cutting tool. ⁴"They adorn the idol with silver and with gold; They fasten it with hammers and nails So that it will not fall apart. ⁵"They are like scarecrows in a cucumber field; They cannot speak; They have to be carried, Because they cannot walk! Do not be afraid of them, For they can do no harm or evil, Nor can they do any good." ⁶There is none like You, O LORD; You are great, and great is Your mighty and powerful name. ⁷Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? For it is appropriate and it is Your due! For among all the wise men of the nations And in all their kingdoms, There is none like You. ⁸But they are altogether irrational and stupid and foolish In their discipline of delusion—their idol is [only] wood [it is ridiculous, empty and worthless]!⁹Silver that has been beaten [into plates] is brought from Tarshish, And gold from Uphaz, The work of the craftsman and of the hand of the goldsmith; Violet and purple are their clothing; They are all the work of skilled men. ¹⁰But the LORD is the true God and the God who is Truth; He is the living God and the everlasting King. The earth quakes and shudders at His wrath, And the nations are not able to endure His indignation.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

altogether: Heb. in one, or at once

brutish: Jeremiah 10:14, Jeremiah 51:17, Jeremiah 51:18, Psalms 115:8, Psalms 135:18, Isaiah 41:29, Habakkuk 2:18, Zechariah 10:2, Romans 1:21, Romans 1:22

the stock: Jeremiah 2:27, Isaiah 44:19, Hosea 4:12

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:4 - General Deuteronomy 32:21 - with their vanities Judges 17:3 - a graven image 1 Samuel 5:3 - set him 1 Samuel 12:21 - vain things 1 Kings 16:13 - vanities 1 Kings 16:26 - their vanities 2 Kings 17:15 - vanity Psalms 31:6 - lying Psalms 49:10 - fool Psalms 94:8 - brutish Psalms 97:9 - far Psalms 106:28 - of the dead Isaiah 1:3 - but Israel Isaiah 40:21 - General Isaiah 41:24 - ye are Isaiah 44:18 - have not Isaiah 45:20 - they Isaiah 46:8 - Remember Jeremiah 1:16 - worshipped Jeremiah 2:5 - walked Jeremiah 3:9 - committed Jeremiah 5:21 - O foolish Jeremiah 10:3 - customs Jeremiah 10:15 - vanity Jeremiah 10:21 - the pastors Hosea 12:11 - surely Hosea 13:2 - according Jonah 2:8 - General Acts 14:15 - from Romans 10:19 - foolish 2 Peter 2:12 - as natural Revelation 9:20 - and idols

Cross-References

Micah 5:6
They shall devastate the land of Assyria with the sword and The land of Nimrod within her [own] gates. And He (the Messiah) shall rescue us from the Assyrian (all enemy nations) When he attacks our land And when he tramples our territory.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But they are altogether brutish and foolish,.... In comparison of the Lord, there is no knowledge and wisdom in them, this is a certain fact; they are verily brutish and foolish; or they are one and all so, there is not a wise man among them: or, "in one thing they are brutish" r, c. namely, in their idolatry; however wise they may be in other respects, in this they are foolish: or, to give no more instances of their brutishness s and folly, this one is sufficient, even what follows,

the stock is a doctrine of vanities; or what they teach persons, as to worship the trunk of a tree, or any idol of metal, or of wood, is a most vain and foolish thing, and argues gross stupidity and folly, and proves them to be brutish, and without understanding.

r ובאחת יבערו "in hoc uno Munster", Tigurine version; "et certe in una quadem re obbrutescunt", Piscator. So Jarchi and Abarbinel. s The Talmudists seem to take the word בער to have the signification of burning; for the sense of these words being asked, it is replied, there is one thing that burns the wicked in hell; what is it? idolatry; as it is here written, "a doctrine of vanities is the stock."

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Brutish - Jeremiah 10:21 and foolish Theirs was the brutishness of men in a savage state, little better than mere animals: their folly that of stupidity.

The stock ... - Rather, the instruction of idols is a piece of wood. That is what they are themselves, and “ex nihilo nihil fit” (from nothingness, nothing is made).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 10:8. The stock is a doctrine of vanities. — Dr. Blayney translates,-"The wood itself is a rebuker of vanities." The very tree out of which the god is hewn demonstrates the vanity and folly of the idolaters; for, can all the art of man make out of a log of wood an animate and intelligent being?