Jeremiah 10:15
These things are empty, and they are a work deserving of ridicule. In the time of their visitation, they will perish.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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 again, on the next day, rising up in the morning, they found Dagon lying on his face upon the ground, before the ark of the Lord. But the head of Dagon, and both palms of his hands had been cut off upon the threshold.
Psalms 115:9I will repay my vows to the Lord in the sight of all his people,
Isaiah 41:24Behold, you exist out of nothing, and your work is from what does not exist; he who has chosen you is an abomination.
Isaiah 57:12I will announce your justice, and your works will not benefit you.
Jeremiah 8:19Behold, the voice of the daughter of my people from a far away land. Is the Lord not with Zion, and is her king not within her? Then why have they provoked me to wrath by their graven images, and by their strange vanities?
Jeremiah 10:11“And so, you shall speak to them in this way: The gods that have not made heaven and earth, let them perish from the earth and from among those places which are under heaven.
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 →