Jeremiah 10:3
King James VersionSource notes
“For the customs of the people vain: for cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.”
Context
1Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3For the customs of the people vain: for cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5They 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 in them to do good.
6Forasmuch as none like unto thee, O LORD; thou great, and thy name is great in might.