Jeremiah 51:17
Each man has become foolish before his own knowledge. Each sculptor has been confounded by his own sculpture. For what he has formed of them is a lie, and there is no spirit in them.
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In The King James Version
In Context
18They are empty works, deserving of ridicule. In the time of their visitation, they will perish.
Cross References
Psalms 53:1Unto the end. In verses, the understanding of David,
Psalms 115:5I will repay my vows to the Lord, in the sight of all his people.
Psalms 135:17He has struck great kings, for his mercy is eternal.
Jeremiah 10:14Every man has become a fool concerning knowledge; every artist has been confounded by his graven image. For what he has formed is false, and there is no spirit in these things.
Habakkuk 2:18Of what benefit is the graven image? For its maker has formed it, a molten and imaginary deception. For its maker has hoped in a figment of his own creation, so as to make a dumb likeness.
1 Corinthians 1:19For it has been written: “I will perish the wisdom of the wise, and I will reject the discernment of the prudent.”
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 →