Jeremiah 10:3-8 For the laws of the peoples, this vanity: for they cut down a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ For the laws of the peoples, this vanity: for they cut down a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. ⁴ With gold and with silver they will beautify; with nails and with hammers they will make firm and it will not move. ⁵ They are of turned work, as the palm tree, and they shall not speak; being lifted up they shall be lifted up, for they shall not mount up. Ye shall not be afraid of them, for they will not do evil, and also doing good is not with them. ⁶ For none like thee, O Jehovah; thou art great, and great thy name in strength. ⁷ Who shall not fear thee, thou king of the nations? for to thee he shall come: for among all the wise of the nations, and among all their kings, from none like thee. ⁸ And in one they will become brutish, and they will be foolish: the tree itself a correction of vanities.