Jeremiah 10:5
They upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also in them to do good.
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Context
3 For the customs of the people vain: for cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5 They upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also in them to do good.
6 Forasmuch as none like unto you, O Yahuah; you great, and your name great in might.
7 Who would not fear you, O King of nations? for to you does it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, none like unto you.