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Jeremiah 10:3

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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.

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  1. Jeremiah 10:1

    Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:

  2. Jeremiah 10:2

    Thus 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.

  3. Jeremiah 10:4

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

  4. Jeremiah 10:5

    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.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.