World English Bible
Jeremiah 10:4
“They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 10
Thus says Yahweh, "Don't learn the way of the nations, and don't be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.
For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.
They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good.
There is none like you, Yahweh; you are great, and your name is great in might.
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