Jeremiah 10:15
They are vain works, wrought in mockery; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 it came to pass when they rose early in the morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off each before the threshold, and both the wrists of his hands had fallen on the floor of the porch; only the stump of Dagon was left.
Psalms 115:9I will pay my vows unto the Lord, 1 In the presence of all his people, 1
Isaiah 41:24whence ye are, and whence is your work: they have chosen you an abomination out of the earth.
Isaiah 57:12And I will declare thy righteousness, and thy sins, which shall not profit thee.
Jeremiah 8:19Behold, there is a sound of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off: Is not the Lord in Zion? is there not a king there? because they have provoked me with their graven images, and with strange vanities.
Jeremiah 10:11Thus shall ye say to them, Let the gods which have not made heaven and earth perish from off the earth, and from under this sky.
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 →