Jeremiah 10:15
They are vain things and a ridiculous work: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 the next day again, when they rose in the morning, they found Dagon lying upon his face on the earth before the ark of the Lord: and the head of Dagon, and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold:
Psalms 115:9I will please the Lord in the land of the living.
Isaiah 41:24Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.
Isaiah 57:12I will declare thy justice, and thy works shall not profit thee.
Jeremiah 8:19Behold the voice of the daughter my people from a far country: Is not the Lord in Sion, or is not her king in her? why then have they provoked me to wrath with their idols, and strange vanities?
Jeremiah 10:11Thus then shall you say to them: The gods that have not made heaven and earth, let them perish from the earth, and from among those places that 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 →