Jeremiah 10:15
Vanity, they are, the handiwork of mockeries,—In the time of their visitation, shall they perish.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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, when they rose up early in the morning of the morrow, lo! Dagon, was lying prostrate on his face to the earth, before the ark of Yahweh—and, the head of Dagon, and both the palms of his hands, had been cut off against the threshold, only, Dagon himself, was left to him.
Psalms 115:9O Israel! trust thou in Yahweh, Their help and their shield, is he!
Isaiah 41:24Lo! ye, are, of nought, And your work is a puff of breath,—An abomination, he that chooseth you!
Isaiah 57:12I, will expose thy righteousness,—And thy works—but they will not profit thee!
Jeremiah 8:19Lo! the voice of the cry for help of the daughter of my people from a land far away, Is, Yahweh, not in Zion? Is, her King, not within her? Why, have they provoked me with their carved images, with their foreign vanities?
Jeremiah 10:11Thus, shall ye say unto them, The gods that made not the heavens, And the earth, Shall perish out of 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 →