Jeremiah 51:17
Euery man is a beast by his owne knowledge: euery founder is confounded by the grauen image: for his melting is but falsehood, and there is no breath therein.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
18They are vanitie, and the worke of errours: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Cross References
Psalms 53:1To him that excelleth on Mahalath. A Psalme of David to give instruction. The foole hath saide in his heart, There is no God. they haue corrupted and done abominable wickednes: there is none that doeth good.
Psalms 115:5They haue a mouth and speake not: they haue eyes and see not.
Psalms 135:17They haue eares and heare not, neither is there any breath in their mouth.
Jeremiah 10:14Euery man is a beast by his owne knowledge: euery founder is confounded by the grauen image: for his melting is but falsehood, and there is no breath therein.
Habakkuk 2:18What profiteth the image? for the maker thereof hath made it an image, and a teacher of lies, though he that made it, trust therein, when he maketh dumme idoles.
1 Corinthians 1:19For it is written, I will destroy the wisedome of the wise, and will cast away the vnderstanding of the prudent.
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 →