Jeremiah 10:15

Jeremiah 10:15 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
• New International Version (NIV)They are worthless, the objects of mockery; when their judgment comes, they will perish.
• English Standard Version (ESV)They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
• New King James Version (NKJV)They are futile, a work of errors; In the time of their punishment they shall perish.

Context of Jeremiah 10:15

13When his voice thunders, the heavenly ocean roars. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it. 14All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols. They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed. 16The Lord, who is the inheritance of Jacob’s descendants, is not like them. He is the one who created everything. And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own. He is known as the Lord who rules over all.” 17Gather your belongings together and prepare to leave the land, you people of Jerusalem who are being besieged.

Jeremiah 10:15 word by word

הֶ֣בֶל הֵ֔מָּה מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה תַּעְתֻּעִ֑ים בְּעֵ֥ת פְּקֻדָּתָ֖ם יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• vanityהֶ֫בֶלhebel hăbêl · vanityH1892
• the workמַעֲשֶׂהma‛ăώeh · deed: workH4639
• of errorsתֵּעְתֻּעִיםta‛tûa‛ · delusionH8595
• in the timeעֵת‛êth · timeH6256
• of their visitationפְּקֻדָּהpeqûddâh · punishmentH6486
• they shall perishאָבַד'âbad · to perishH6

Cross-references for Jeremiah 10:15

• Jeremiah 10:8The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!
• Jeremiah 8:19I hear my dear people crying out throughout the length and breadth of the land. They are crying, ‘Is the Lord no longer in Zion? Is her divine King no longer there?’” The Lord answers, “Why then do they provoke me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
• Jeremiah 14:22Do any of the worthless idols of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? So we put our hopes in you because you alone do all this.”
• Jeremiah 51:18They are worthless, objects to be ridiculed. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.
• Deuteronomy 32:21They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.
• 1 Samuel 12:21You should not turn aside after empty things that can’t profit and can’t deliver, since they are empty.
• Isaiah 41:24Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent; the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting.
• Jonah 2:8Those who worship worthless idols forfeit the mercy that could be theirs.
• Acts 14:15“Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.
• Jeremiah 10:11You people of Israel should tell those nations this: ‘These gods did not make heaven and earth. They will disappear from the earth and from under the heavens.’
• Jeremiah 8:12Are they ashamed because they have done such disgusting things? No, they are not at all ashamed! They do not even know how to blush! So they will die just like others have died. They will be brought to ruin when I punish them, says the Lord.
• Isaiah 2:18The worthless idols will be completely eliminated.
• Zephaniah 1:3“I will destroy people and animals; I will destroy the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea. (The idolatrous images of these creatures will be destroyed along with evil people.) I will remove humanity from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.
• Zechariah 13:2And also on that day,” says the Lord who rules over all, “I will remove the names of the idols from the land and they will never again be remembered. Moreover, I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 10:15

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15Rather, “They are vanity, a work of mockery,” deserving only ridicule and contempt.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12-16This stanza strongly affirms God's nature.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. errors--deceptions; from a Hebrew root, "to stutter"; then meaning "to mock." their visitation they--When God shall punish the idol-worshippers (namely, by Cyrus), the idols themselves shall be destroyed [Rosenmuller] (Jr 10:11).Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 10:15

• Idolatry

In the dictionaries

• Cord
• Custom
• Covenant, the New
• Exodus, the Book of
• Habakkuk
• Visitation
• Zedekiah (2)

Commentaries on Jeremiah 10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings