Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 10:3
A church father on this verse
“(v. 3.) Because it was cut down from the forest, the work of a craftsman with an axe. Description of the idols that the nations worship. He said that he cut down the wood from the forest. Therefore, the material of idols is cheap and perishable: the work of a craftsman's hands. Since the craftsman is mortal, the thing…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
3For 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.
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In context
1Hear ye the word of the Lord, which he has spoken to you, O house of Israel.
2Thus saith the Lord, Learn ye not the ways of the heathen, and be not alarmed at the signs of the sky; for they are alarmed at them, falling on their faces.
— Jeremiah 10:3 —
4They are beautified with silver and gold, they fix them with hammers and nails;
5they will set them up that they may not move; it is wrought silver, they will not walk, it is forged silver