Jeremiah 10:15

They are vanity, deceptive work; In the time of their punishment shall they perish.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

In Context

14Brutish is every one who hath not this knowledge; By his image is every founder put to shame, For his molten-work is deceit; There is no breath in it.

16Not like them is He who is the portion of Jacob; He is the former of all things, And Israel is his allotted inheritance; Jehovah of hosts is his name.

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Cross References

Psalms 115:9O Israel! trust thou in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.

Isaiah 41:24Behold, ye are less than nothing, And your work is less than naught; An abomination is he that chooseth you!

Isaiah 57:12But now I announce thy deliverance, And thy works do not profit thee.

Jeremiah 8:19Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people from a far country! “Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is her King there no more?” Why then have they provoked me by their graven images, And their foreign vanities?

Jeremiah 10:11[[Thus shall ye say to them: The gods, that have not made the heavens and the earth, Shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.]]

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 →

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