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Jeremiah 10:3

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 3 For the customs of the peoples are a delusion.*
  
  It is just a tree of the forest that is cut down,
  Worked by the hands of the craftsman with his tool.*+

Jeremiah 10:3

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 3 For the customs* of the peoples+ are just an exhalation, because it is a mere tree+ out of the forest that one has cut down, the work of the hands of the craftsman with the billhook.+

Jeremiah 10:3

The Bible in Living English
- 3 * for the usages of the nations are superstition. A piece of wood that he has cut from a badlands growth, the handicraft of a mechanic with a hatchet;

Jeremiah 10:3

American Standard Version
- 3 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.

Jeremiah 10:3

The Emphasized Bible
- 3 For as for the prescribed customs of the peoples vanity they are,—For a tree out of the forest one cutteth down, Work for the hands of a skilled workman with the axe:

Jeremiah 10:3

King James Version
- 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.