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Jeremiah 10:3

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3For the customs of the peoples are 1adelusion;

Because bit is wood cut from the forest,

The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

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Footnotes

  1. 1Lit vanity

Cross references

  1. aJer 14:22
  2. bIs 44:9–20

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

for the customs of the peoples are vanity.

A tree from the forest is cut down

and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For the practices of the peoples are worthless;

they cut a tree out of the forest,

and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

for the customs of the peoples are worthless.

Someone cuts down a tree from the forest;

it is worked by the hands of a craftsman with a chisel.

NLTNew Living Translation

Their ways are futile and foolish.

They cut down a tree, and a craftsman carves an idol.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For the statutes of the peoples are vanity,

for it is a tree cut down from the forest,

the work of the hands of a craftsman with the tool.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.