Jeremiah 51:17
Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
18They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Cross References
Psalms 53:1The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity. There is none who does good.
Psalms 115:5They have mouths, but they speak not. They have eyes, but they see not.
Psalms 135:17They have ears, but they hear not, nor is there any breath in their mouths.
Jeremiah 10:14Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image. For his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Habakkuk 2:18What profits the graven image, that the maker of it has engraved it, the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make dumb idols?
1 Corinthians 1:19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will frustrate the understanding of those of understanding.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 51:2-59
The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; 2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her… Read the whole commentary →