Jeremiah 10:15

In 11 translations

BSB

They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

KJV

They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

WEB

They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.

ASV

They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

LSV

They [are] vanity, work of erring ones, || They perish in the time of their inspection.

YLT

Vanity [are] they, work of erring ones, In the time of their inspection they perish.

DBY

They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

DRC

They are vain things and a ridiculous work: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

GNV

They are vanitie, and the worke of errours: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

JPS

They are vanity, a work of delusion; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

LXXE

They are vain works, wrought in mockery; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

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Original-language editions

WLC

הֶ֣בֶל הֵ֔מָּה מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה תַּעְתֻּעִ֑ים בְּעֵ֥ת פְּקֻדָּתָ֖ם יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃

LXX-Br

Μάταιά ἐστιν ἔργα ἐμπεπαιγμένα, ἐν καιρῷ ἐπισκοπῆς αὐτῶν ἀπολοῦνται.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Jeremiah 14:22Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
• Isaiah 41:24Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.
• Jeremiah 51:18They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
• Jeremiah 8:12Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.
• Zechariah 13:2And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.
• Jeremiah 8:19Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless…
• Isaiah 2:18–21and the idols will vanish completely. Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth. In that day…
• Jonah 2:8Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
• Zephaniah 1:3–4“I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and the idols with their wicked worshipers. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD. “I…
• Deuteronomy 32:21They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without…
• Acts 14:15“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in…
• Jeremiah 10:11Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”
• 1 Samuel 12:21Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.
• Jeremiah 10:8But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
• Isaiah 41:29See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.

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