Jeremiah 10:1-3

American Standard Version

10 Hear ye the word which Jehovah speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: ²thus saith Jehovah, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them. ³For the ^[a]customs of the peoples are vanity; for ^[b]one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 10:3 Hebrew statutes.
Jeremiah 10:3 Or, it is but a tree which one cutteth

Jeremiah 10:1-3

New International Version

God and Idols^(A)

10 Hear what the Lord says to you, people of Israel. ²This is what the Lord says:

“Do not learn the ways of the nations^(B)
    or be terrified by signs^(C) in the heavens,
    though the nations are terrified by them.
³For the practices of the peoples are worthless;
    they cut a tree out of the forest,
    and a craftsman^(D) shapes it with his chisel.^(E)