Jeremiah 51:17

Every son of earth had become too brutish to know,—Every goldsmith, hath been put to shame, by a graven image,—For a falsehood, is his molten image Seeing there is no breath in them:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

In Context

16By the voice that he uttered, there was a tumult of waters in the heavens, And he caused vapours to ascend from the end of the earth,—Lightnings for the rain, made he, And brought forth wind out of his treasures.

18Vanity, they are, A handiwork of mockeries,—In the time of their visitation, shall they perish.

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Cross References

Psalms 53:1The impious hath said in his heart, There is no God! They have acted corruptly, They have wrought abominable perversity, There is none that doeth good:—

Psalms 115:5A mouth, have they, but they speak not, Eyes, have they, but they see not;

Psalms 135:17Ears, have they, but they hear not, Nose,—there is no breath in their mouth.

Jeremiah 10:14Every son of earth hath become too brutish to discern, Every goldsmith, hath been put to shame by a graven image,—For a falsehood, is his molten image, Seeing there is no breath in them.

Habakkuk 2:18What hath a carved image, profited, though the fashioner thereof, carved it? a molten image, and a teacher of falsehood,—though the fashioner of his fashioned thing trusted therein? that men should make Dumb Nonentities!

1 Corinthians 1:19For it is written—I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and, the discernment of the discerning, will I set aside.

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 →

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