Jeremiah 10:3 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
For the laws of the people are empty. For the work of the hand of the craftsman has cut a tree from the forest with an axe.
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
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.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
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 axe.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
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.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
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.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
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.
LSV Literal Standard Version
For the statutes of the peoples are vanity, || For one has cut a tree from a forest, || Work of the hands of a craftsman, with an axe,
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
For the statutes of the peoples are vanity; for [it is] a tree cut out of the forest, worked with a chisel by the hands of the artizan;
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
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 ax.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
For the customes of the people are vaine: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest (which is the worke of the handes of the carpenter) with the axe,
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
For the religious customs of these people are worthless. They cut down a tree in the forest, and the craftsman carves the wood.
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jewish
JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for it is but a tree which one cutteth out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
Individual translator
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.
LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint
For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.
YLT Young's Literal Translation
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,
FBV Free Bible Version
The religious beliefs of the peoples are pointless. They chop down a tree in the forest and a craftsman carves the wood with a tool to make an idol.
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Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.
Spanish
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Porque las ordenanzas de los pueblos son vanidad: porque leño del monte cortaron, obra de manos de artífice con azuela.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
(this translation has no verse with this number)
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Porque las costumbres de los pueblos son vanidad. Cortan un árbol del bosque, la mano de un artífice lo labra con azuela,
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Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Las creencias religiosas de los pueblos no tienen sentido. Cortan un árbol en el bosque y un artesano talla la madera con una herramienta para hacer un ídolo.
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BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Lo que los pueblos temen es una tontería, una obra de manos humanas. Un artesano corta un árbol del bosque con su hacha.
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint
Ὅτι τὰ νόμιμα τῶν ἐθνῶν μάταια· ξύλον ἐστὶν ἐκ τοῦ δρυμοῦ ἐκκεκομμένον, ἔργον τέκτονος, καὶ χώνευμα,
Hebrew
Scholarly edition
WLC Westminster Leningrad Codex
כִּֽי־חֻקּ֥וֹת הָֽעַמִּ֖ים הֶ֣בֶל ה֑וּא כִּֽי־עֵץ֙ מִיַּ֣עַר כְּרָת֔וֹ מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יְדֵ֥י־חָרָ֖שׁ בַּֽמַּעֲצָֽד׃
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
quia leges populorum vanæ sunt. Quia lignum de saltu præcidit opus manus artificis in ascia:
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
Поне́же зако́ны ꙗ҆зы́кѡвъ сꙋ́етни сꙋ́ть: дре́во є҆́сть ѿ лѣ́са и҆зсѣ́ченое, дѣ́ло текто́нское и҆ слїѧ́нїе:
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Ибо уставы народов - пустота: вырубают дерево в лесу, обделывают его руками плотника при помощи топора,
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Διότι τα νόμιμα των λαών είναι μάταια, διότι κόπτουσι ξύλον εκ του δάσους, έργον χειρών τέκτονος με τον πέλεκυν.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Јер су уредбе у народа таштина, јер секу дрво у шуми, дело руку уметничких секиром;
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Jer su uredbe u naroda taština, jer seku drvo u šumi, delo ruku umetničkih sekirom;
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
لِأَنَّ فَرَائِضَ ٱلْأُمَمِ بَاطِلَةٌ. لِأَنَّهَا شَجَرَةٌ يَقْطَعُونَهَا مِنَ ٱلْوَعْرِ. صَنْعَةُ يَدَيْ نَجَّارٍ بِٱلْقَدُومِ.
Not in these translations (8)
Tyndale, Scío, PT1904, PT, RP2018, TR, Nestle 1904, SBLGNT