Jeremiah 10:15 “They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishme…”

Jeremiah 10:15

They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

World English Bible

They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.

American Standard Version

They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Geneva Bible 1599

They are vanitie, and the worke of errours: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Darby Translation

They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Young's Literal Translation

Vanity [are] they, work of erring ones, In the time of their inspection they perish.

Bible in Basic English

They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

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Cross references

“vanity”

Jeremiah 14:22 Isaiah 41:24 Jeremiah 51:18 Jeremiah 8:19 Jonah 2:8 Jeremiah 10:8

Jeremiah 14:22 · BSB

Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.

Isaiah 41:24 · BSB

Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.

Jeremiah 51:18 · BSB

They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

Jeremiah 8:19 · BSB

Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreig…

Jonah 2:8 · BSB

Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.

Jeremiah 10:8 · BSB

But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

“in the”

Jeremiah 8:12 Isaiah 2:18–21 Zechariah 13:2 Jeremiah 10:11 Zephaniah 1:3 Zephaniah 1:4

Jeremiah 8:12 · BSB

Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.

Isaiah 2:18–21 · BSB

and the idols will vanish completely.

Zechariah 13:2 · BSB

And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.

Jeremiah 10:11 · BSB

Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”

Zephaniah 1:3 · BSB

“I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and the idols with their wicked worshipers. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.

Zephaniah 1:4 · BSB

“I will stretch out My hand against Judah and against all who dwell in Jerusalem. I will cut off from this place every remnant of Baal, the names of the idolatrous and pagan priests—

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.

16The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance— the LORD of Hosts is His name.

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