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Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Jeremiah 10:5
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5. upright--or, "They are of turned work, resembling a palm tree" [Maurer]. The point of comparison between the idol and the palm is in the pillar-like uprightness of the latter, it having no branches except at the top.
speak not--(Psa 115:5).
cannot go--that is, walk (Psa 115:7; Is 46:1, 7).
neither ... do good--(Is 41:23).
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