Jeremiah 10:15
They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 5:4And when they got up early on the morning after, Dagon had come down to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord; and his head and his hands were broken off on the doorstep; only the base was in its place.
Psalms 115:9O Israel, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate.
Isaiah 41:24But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish is he who takes you for his gods.
Isaiah 57:12I will make clear what your righteousness is like and your works; you will have no profit in them.
Jeremiah 8:19The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people comes from a far land: Is the Lord not in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they made me angry with their images and their strange gods which are no gods?
Jeremiah 10:11This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 10:2-17
Solemn Charge to Israel; The Folly of Idolatry. ( b. c. 606.) 1 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 2 Thus saith the Lord , Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one 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… Read the whole commentary →