Jeremías 10:8

8 Mas ellos a una son torpes y necios en su enseñanza de vanidades, pues su ídolo es un leño.

Jeremías 10:8 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are altogether brutish and foolish
In comparison of the Lord, there is no knowledge and wisdom in them, this is a certain fact; they are verily brutish and foolish; or they are one and all so, there is not a wise man among them: or, "in one thing they are brutish" ^F18; namely, in their idolatry; however wise they may be in other respects, in this they are foolish: or, to give no more instances of their brutishness ^F19 and folly, this one is sufficient, even what follows, the stock is a doctrine of vanities;
or what they teach persons, as to worship the trunk of a tree, or any idol of metal, or of wood, is a most vain and foolish thing, and argues gross stupidity and folly, and proves them to be brutish, and without understanding.

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 (wreby txabw) "in hoc uno Munster", Tigurine version; "et certe in una quadem re obbrutescunt", Piscator. So Jarchi and Abarbinel.
F19 The Talmudists seem to take the word (reb) to have the signification of burning; for the sense of these words being asked, it is replied, there is one thing that burns the wicked in hell; what is it? idolatry; as it is here written, "a doctrine of vanities is the stock."

Jeremías 10:8 In-Context

6 No hay nadie como tú, oh SEÑOR; grande eres tú, y grande es tu nombre en poderío.

7 ¿Quién no te temerá, oh Rey de las naciones? Porque esto se te debe. Porque entre todos los sabios de las naciones, y en todos sus reinos, no hay nadie como tú.

8 Mas ellos a una son torpes y necios en su enseñanza de vanidades, pues su ídolo es un leño.

9 Plata laminada es traída de Tarsis y oro de Ufaz, obra del artífice y de manos del orfebre; su vestido es de violeta y púrpura; todo ello obra de peritos.

10 Pero el SEÑOR es el Dios verdadero; El es el Dios vivo y el Rey eterno. Ante su enojo tiembla la tierra, y las naciones son impotentes ante su indignación.