Jeremiah 10:3-8

3 afor the customs of the peoples are vanity.
Or vapor, or mist

cA tree from the forest is cut down
and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
4 dThey decorate it with silver and gold;
ethey fasten it with hammer and nails
so that it cannot move.
5Their idols
Hebrew They
are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
and gthey cannot speak;
hthey have to be carried,
for they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
ifor they cannot do evil,
neither is it in them to do good.”
6 jThere is none like you, O Lord;
you are great, and your name is great in might.
7 kWho would not fear you, O King of the nations?
For this is your due;
for among all the wise ones of the nations
and in all their kingdoms
there is none like you.
8 lThey are both mstupid and foolish;
the instruction of idols is but wood!

Jeremiah 10:14-15

14 nEvery man is stupid and without knowledge;
oevery goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,
for his images are false,
pand there is no breath in them.
15They are worthless, a work of delusion;
at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

Jeremiah 16:19

19 qO Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
rmy refuge in the day of trouble,
sto you shall the nations come
from the ends of the earth and say:
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies,
tworthless things in which there is no profit.

Ephesians 4:17-18

The New Life

17Now this I say and utestify in the Lord, vthat you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, win the futility of their minds. 18They xare darkened in their understanding, yalienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to ztheir hardness of heart.

1 Peter 1:18

18knowing that you aawere ransomed from abthe futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
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