Jeremiah 51:17
Every man is become foolish by his knowledge: every founder is confounded by his idol, for what he hath cast is a lie, and there is no breath in them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
18They are vain works, and worthy to be laughed at, in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Cross References
Psalms 53:1Unto the end, for Maeleth, understandings to David. The fool said in his hear t: There is no God.
Psalms 115:5The Lord is merciful and just, and our God sheweth mercy.
Jeremiah 10:14Every man is become a fool for knowledge every artist is confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there is no spirit in them.
Habakkuk 2:18What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath trusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols.
1 Corinthians 1:19For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the prudence of the prudent I will reject.
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 →