Jeremiah 51:18
They are vanity, deceptive work; In the time of their punishment shall they perish.
Noyes Bible
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 2:18The idols shall wholly pass away;
Isaiah 46:1Bel sinketh down; Nebo falleth; Their images are laid upon beasts and cattle; Those that ye once bore are packed upon them; A burden to the weary beast!
Jeremiah 10:8They are all brutish and without understanding; A doctrine of vanities is the stock.
Jeremiah 10:15They are vanity, deceptive work; In the time of their punishment shall they perish.
Jeremiah 43:12And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captive; and he shall wrap himself in the land of Egypt, as a shepherd wrappeth himself in his garment, and he shall go forth from thence in peace.
Jeremiah 48:7For, because thou hast trusted in thy substance and thy treasures, Thou also shalt be taken And Chemosh shall go into captivity, His priests and his princes 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 →