“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 ax.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Jeremiah 10 contains 25 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.