THEOSISJeremiah 10:3Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe.
כִּֽי־חֻקּ֥וֹת הָֽעַמִּ֖ים הֶ֣בֶל ה֑וּא כִּֽי־עֵץ֙ מִיַּ֣עַר כְּרָת֔וֹ מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יְדֵ֥י־חָרָ֖שׁ בַּֽמַּעֲצָֽד׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Lev 18:30Keep my commandments. Do not the things which they have done, that have been before you: and be not defiled therein. I am the Lord your God.
- Isa 44:9The makers of idols are all of them nothing, and their best beloved things shall not profit them. They are their witnesses, that they do not see, nor understand, that they may be ashamed.
- Isa 44:20Part thereof is ashes: his foolish heart adoreth it, and he will not save his soul, nor say: Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand.
- 1 Pet 1:18Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers:
- Rom 1:21Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was darkened.
- Jer 10:8They shall be all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood.
- Isa 45:20Assemble yourselves, and come, and draw near together, ye that are saved of the Gentiles: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven work, and pray to a god that cannot save.
- Matt 6:7And when you are praying, speak not much, as the heathens. For they think that in their much speaking they may be heard.