4With silver and with gold they beautify it, With nails and with hammers they fix it, And it doth not stumble.


In Context

1 Hear ye the word, O house of Israel, That Jehovah hath spoken for you.

2 Thus said Jehovah: Unto the way of the nations accustom not yourselves, And by the signs of the heavens be not affrighted, For the nations are affrighted by them.

3 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,

4 With silver and with gold they beautify it, With nails and with hammers they fix it, And it doth not stumble.

5 As a palm they are stiff, and they speak not, They are surely borne, for they step not, Be not afraid of them, for they do no evil, Yea, also to do good is not in them.

6 Because there is none like Thee, O Jehovah, Great art Thou, and great Thy name in might.

Jeremiah 10:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

10:4They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so it will not totter.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

10:4He hath decked it with silver and gold: he hath put it together with nails and hammers, that it may not fall asunder.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

10:4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:4they deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

10:4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it may not move.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.