Jeremiah 10:3-8

1. 3 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.

2. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

3. 5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

4. 6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

5. 7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.

6. 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

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