But they are altogether (A)stupid and foolish;
The instruction from idols is nothing but wood!

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They are all senseless(A) and foolish;(B)
    they are taught by worthless wooden idols.(C)

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But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

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14 Every person is (A)stupid, devoid of knowledge;
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,
For his cast metal images are deceitful,
And there is no breath in them.

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14 Everyone is senseless and without knowledge;
    every goldsmith is shamed(A) by his idols.
The images he makes are a fraud;(B)
    they have no breath in them.

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14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

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For the [a](A)household idols speak deception,
And the (B)diviners see [b]an illusion
And tell (C)deceitful dreams;
They comfort in vain.
Therefore the people [c]wander like (D)sheep,
They are wretched because there is no shepherd.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 10:2 Heb teraphim
  2. Zechariah 10:2 Lit a lie
  3. Zechariah 10:2 Lit journey

The idols(A) speak deceitfully,
    diviners(B) see visions that lie;
they tell dreams(C) that are false,
    they give comfort in vain.(D)
Therefore the people wander like sheep
    oppressed for lack of a shepherd.(E)

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For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.

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