Jeremías 10:3
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.
Context
This verse from Jeremías Chapter 10 connects to 10 cross-references. Una polémicacontra la idolatría: las costumbres de los pueblos son falsas — cortan árboles, los adornan con oro y plata y los clavan para que no se tambaleen. Pero el Señor es el Dios verdadero y vivo.
Otras traducciones
For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
For the statutes of the peoples are vanity, For a tree from a forest hath one cut, Work of the hands of an artificer, with an axe,
For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.
Referencias cruzadas
Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before …
And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal …
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon …
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they …
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they …
He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is …
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set …
Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and …
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.