Jeremiah 51:18
They are empty works, deserving of ridicule. In the time of their visitation, they will perish.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 2:18And idols will be thoroughly crushed.
Isaiah 46:1Bel has been broken. Nebo has been crushed. Their idols have been placed upon beasts and cattle, your grievous heavy burdens, even unto exhaustion.
Jeremiah 10:8Together, they will all be proven to be unwise and foolish. The doctrine of their vanity is made of wood.
Jeremiah 10:15These things are empty, and they are a work deserving of ridicule. In the time of their visitation, they will perish.
Jeremiah 43:12And he will kindle a fire in the shrines of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them down, and he will lead them away captive. And he will clothe himself with the land of Egypt, just as a shepherd is clothed with his cloak. And he will go forth from that place in peace.
Jeremiah 48:7For because you have had faith in your fortifications and in your storehouses, you too will be seized. And Chemosh will go into captivity: his priests and his leaders together.
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 →