Jeremiah 10:3

Overview - Jeremiah 10
The unequal comparison of God and idols.
17 The prophet exhorts to flee from the calamity to come.
19 He laments the spoil of the tabernacle by foolish pastors.
23 He makes an humble supplication.
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Jeremiah 10:3  (King James Version)
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.
 


customs
Hebrew statutes, or ordinances, are vanity.
8 ; 2:5 Leviticus 18:30 ; 1 Kings 18:26-28 ; Matthew 6:7 ; Romans 1:21 ; 1 Peter 1:18

one
Isaiah 40:19-31 ; 44:9-20 45:20 Hosea 8:4-6 ; Habakkuk 2:18 Habakkuk 2:19