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Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Geneva Bible

Jeremiah 10:15

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Idolatry;   Thompson Chain Reference - Day;   False;   Idolatry;   Idols;   Vanity of Idols;   Visitation;   Worship, False;   Worship, True and False;   The Topic Concordance - Idolatry;   Perishing;   Vanity;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Idol, Idolatry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jeremiah;   Vanity;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Visitation;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Visitation;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - 'Alenu;   Jeremiah, Book of;   Jeremiah, Epistle of;   Judaism;   Monotheism;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They are worthless, a work to be mocked.At the time of their punishmentthey will be destroyed.
Hebrew Names Version
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
King James Version
They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
English Standard Version
They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
New American Standard Bible
They are worthless, a work of mockery; At the time of their punishment they will perish.
New Century Version
They are worth nothing; people make fun of them. When they are judged, they will be destroyed.
Amplified Bible
They are worthless and devoid of promise, a work of delusion and mockery; In their time of [trial and] punishment they will perish [without hope].
World English Bible
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Legacy Standard Bible
They are vanity, a work of mockery;In the time of their punishment they will perish.
Berean Standard Bible
They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment, they will perish.
Contemporary English Version
Idols are merely a joke, and when the time is right, they will be destroyed.
Complete Jewish Bible
they are nothings, ridiculous objects; when the day for their punishment comes, they will perish.
Darby Translation
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Easy-to-Read Version
These idols are worth nothing. They are something to make fun of. In the time of judgment they will be destroyed.
George Lamsa Translation
They are vanity, and the work of vain folly; in the time when they are visited with punishment, they shall perish.
Good News Translation
They are worthless and should be despised; they will be destroyed when the Lord comes to deal with them.
Lexham English Bible
They are vanity, a work of mockery, at the time of their punishment, they will perish.
Literal Translation
They are vanity, the work of delusion. In the time of their judgment they shall perish.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The vayne craftes men with their workes, that they in their vanite haue made, shall perish one with another in the tyme of visitacion.
American Standard Version
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Bible in Basic English
They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
They are vanity, a work of delusion; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
King James Version (1611)
They are vanity, and the worke of errours: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The vayne craftesmen with their workes that they in their vanitie haue made, shall perishe one with another in time of visitation.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They are vain works, wrought in mockery; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
English Revised Version
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Tho ben veyn, and a werk worthi of scorn; tho schulen perische in the tyme of her visitacioun.
Update Bible Version
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Webster's Bible Translation
They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
New English Translation
They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.
New King James Version
They are futile, a work of errors; In the time of their punishment they shall perish.
New Living Translation
Idols are worthless; they are ridiculous lies! On the day of reckoning they will all be destroyed.
New Life Bible
They are without worth, and make fun of the truth. In the time of their punishment, they will be destroyed.
New Revised Standard
They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Vanity, they are, the handiwork of mockeries, - In the time of their visitation, shall they perish.
Douay-Rheims Bible
They are vain things, and a ridiculous work: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Revised Standard Version
They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
Young's Literal Translation
Vanity [are] they, work of erring ones, In the time of their inspection they perish.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They are worthless, a work of mockery; In the time of their punishment they will perish.

Contextual Overview

1 Heare ye the worde of the Lord that he speaketh vnto you, O house of Israel. 2 Thus saith the Lorde, Learne not the way of the heathen, & be not afraid for the signes of heauen, though the heathen be afraid of such. 3 For the customes of the people are vaine: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest (which is the worke of the handes of the carpenter) with the axe, 4 And another decketh it with siluer, and with golde: they fasten it with nailes, and hammers, that it fall not. 5 The idoles stande vp as the palme tree, but speake not: they are borne because they cannot go feare them not, for they cannot do euill, neither can they do good. 6 There is none like vnto thee, O Lorde: thou art great, and thy name is great in power. 7 Who would not feare thee, O King of nations? for to thee appertaineth the dominion: for among all the wise men of the Gentiles, and in al their kingdomes there is none like thee. 8 But, altogether they dote, and are foolish: for the stocke is a doctrine of vanitie. 9 Siluer plates are brought from Tarshish, & golde from Vphaz, for the worke of the workeman, and the handes of the founder: the blewe silke, and the purple is their clothing: all these things are made by cunning men. 10 But the Lord is the God of trueth: he is the liuing God, and an euerlasting King: at his anger the earth shal tremble, and the nations cannot abide his wrath.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

vanity: Jeremiah 10:8, Jeremiah 8:19, Jeremiah 14:22, Jeremiah 51:18, Deuteronomy 32:21, 1 Samuel 12:21, Isaiah 41:24, Isaiah 41:29, Jonah 2:8, Acts 14:15

in the: Jeremiah 10:11, Jeremiah 8:12, Isaiah 2:18-21, Zephaniah 1:3, Zephaniah 1:4, Zechariah 13:2

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:17 - not to God 1 Kings 16:13 - vanities 2 Kings 17:15 - vanity Psalms 31:6 - lying Psalms 40:4 - as turn Psalms 96:5 - For Isaiah 44:9 - make Isaiah 45:16 - General Jeremiah 1:16 - worshipped Jeremiah 2:5 - walked Jeremiah 16:19 - Surely Jeremiah 18:15 - burned Jeremiah 48:44 - the year Ezekiel 24:12 - wearied Hosea 9:7 - days of visitation Hosea 12:11 - surely Micah 7:4 - thy Habakkuk 2:18 - a teacher Acts 19:26 - that they Romans 1:21 - but became Romans 1:25 - into a lie Revelation 9:20 - and idols

Cross-References

Genesis 10:2
The sonnes of Iapheth were Gomer and Magog, and Madai, and Iauan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis 10:3
And the sonnes of Gomer, Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
Genesis 10:8
And Cush begate Nimrod, who began to be mightie in the earth.
Genesis 10:15
Also Canaan begat Zidon his first borne, and Heth,
Genesis 10:18
And Aruadi, and Zemari, and Hamathi: and afterwarde were the families of the Canaanites spred abroade.
Genesis 10:20
These are the sonnes of Ham according to their families, according to their tongues in their countries and in their nations.
Genesis 10:21
Vnto Shem also the father of all the sonnes of Eber, and elder brother of Iapheth were children borne.
Genesis 10:24
Also Arpachshad begate Shelah, and Shelah begate Eber.
Genesis 23:3
Then Abraham rose vp from the sight of his corps, & talked with the Hittites, saying,
Genesis 49:13
Zebulun shall dwell by the sea side, and he shalbe an hauen for shippes: and his border shalbe vnto Zidon.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They are vanity,.... They are the fruit of the vain imagination of men; to worship them shows the vanity of the human mind; and they are vain things to trust to:

and the work of errors; of erroneous men, and which lead men into errors; and are worthy to be laughed at, as the Targum paraphrases it.

In the time of their visitation they shall perish; or in the time that I shall visit upon them their sins, as the Targum; that is, when Babylon should be destroyed by the Medes and Persians, as Kimchi interprets it; when their idols were destroyed also; see Isaiah 46:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Rather, “They are vanity, a work of mockery,” deserving only ridicule and contempt.


 
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