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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Jeremiah 10:15

Vanity, they are, the handiwork of mockeries, - In the time of their visitation, shall they 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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They are vanitie, and the worke of errours: 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.
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 Hear ye the word which Yahweh hath spoken unto you, O house of Israel: - 2 Thus, saith Yahweh - Unto the way of the nations, become not ye accustomed, Nor at the signs of the heavens, be ye dismayed, - Because the nations are dismayed at them. 3 For as for the prescribed customs of the peoples, vanity, they are, - For a tree out of the forest, one cutteth down, Work for the hands of a skilled workman with the axe: 4 With silver and with gold, he decketh it, - With nails and with hammers, they fasten them, that it may not totter. 5 Mere palm-trunks turned, they are and cannot speak, They must needs be, carried, for they cannot take a step, Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do harm, And even to do good, is not in their power. 6 None, there is, like unto thee, O Yahweh, - Great, art, thou, And, great, is thy Name, for might. 7 Who would not revere thee, O King of nations? For, thee, doth it beseem; Forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations And throughout all their royal estate, None, there is like unto thee. 8 But at once, do they become brutish and stupid, - An example of utmost vanity, is, a tree! 9 Silver spread into plates, from Tarshish is brought, And gold, from Uphaz, Work for the craftsman and for the hands of the smith, - Blue and purple, is their clothing, Work for the skilled, are they all. 10 But, Yahweh, is God in truth, He, is a God that, liveth, And a King of times age-abiding, - At his anger, quaketh the earth, And nations cannot endure 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 sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog, and Madai, and Javan and Tubal, - and Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis 10:3
And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Riphath, and Togarmah.
Genesis 10:8
And, Cush begat Nimrod. - he, became a hero in the earth;
Genesis 10:15
And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth:
Genesis 10:18
and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite, - and after-wards, were spread abroad the families of the Canaanite.
Genesis 10:20
These, are the sons of Ham, by their families by their tongues, in their lands in their nations.
Genesis 10:21
Now, to Shem, father of all the sons of Eber, elder brother of Japheth, to him also, were children born.
Genesis 10:24
Now Arpachshad, begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.
Genesis 23:3
And Abraham rose up from over the face of his dead, - and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying;
Genesis 49:13
Zebulon, by a haven of seas, shall he settle down, - Even he, by a haven of ships, With his utmost part upon b 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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