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Thursday, June 12th, 2025
the Week of Proper 5 / Ordinary 10
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Douay-Rheims Bible

Jeremiah 51:18

They are vain works, and worthy to be laughed at, in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Persia;   The Topic Concordance - Idolatry;   Perishing;   Vanity;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Idol, Idolatry;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Cyrus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Persia, Persians;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Babylon;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Captain;   Governor;   Visitation;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They are worthless, a work to be mocked.At the time of their punishment they 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, 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 (empty, false, futile), a work of delusion and worthy of derision; In the time of their inspection and punishment they will perish.
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 errors: in the time of their visitation they shal perish.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They are worthless, a work of mockery; In the time of their punishment they will 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
Those idols are worthless. People made them, and they are nothing but a joke. Their time of judgment will come, and those idols will be destroyed.
George Lamsa Translation
They are worthless, the works of fools; in the time of 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 worthless, a work of mockery. At the time of their punishment, they will perish.
Literal Translation
They are vanity, the work of errors; in the time of their punishment they shall perish.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Vayne is it, & worthy to be laughed at: & in the tyme of visitacion it shal perish.
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 vanitie, the worke of errours: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Uayne is it and an erronious worke, and in the tyme of visitation it shall perishe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, we have all been brought low, and have been consumed by sword and by famine.
English Revised Version
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The werkis ben veyn, and worthi of scorn; tho schulen perische in the tyme of her visityng.
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, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
New English Translation
They are worthless, objects to be ridiculed. 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 of no worth, a false show. At 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, A handiwork of mockeries, - In the time of their visitation, shall they 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 errors, In the time of their inspection they perish.

Contextual Overview

1 Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will raise up as it were a pestilential wind against Babylon and against the inhabitants thereof, who have lifted up their heart against me. 2 And I will send to Babylon fanners, and they shall fan her, and shall destroy her land: for they are come upon her on every side in the day of her affliction. 3 Let not him that bendeth, bend his bow, and let not him go up that is armed with a coat of mail: spare not her young men, destroy all her army. 4 And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the wounded in the regions thereof. 5 For Israel and Juda have not been forsaken by their God the Lord of hosts: but their land hath been filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel. 6 Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, and let every one save his own life: be not silent upon her iniquity: for it is the time of revenge from the Lord, he will render unto her what she hath deserved. 7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, that made all the earth drunk: the nations have drunk of her wine, and therefore they have staggered. 8 Babylon is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howl for her, take balm for her pain, if so she may be healed. 9 We would have cured Babylon, but she is not healed: let us forsake her, and let us go every man to his own land: because her judgment hath reached even to the heavens, and is lifted up to the clouds. 10 The Lord hath brought forth our justices: Come, and let us declare in Sion the work of the Lord our God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

vanity: Jeremiah 10:8, Jeremiah 10:15, Jonah 2:8, Acts 14:15

in the: Jeremiah 43:12, Jeremiah 43:13, Jeremiah 46:25, Jeremiah 48:7, Jeremiah 50:2, Exodus 12:12, Isaiah 19:1, Isaiah 46:1, Zephaniah 2:11

Reciprocal: Isaiah 41:24 - ye are Isaiah 45:20 - they Jeremiah 2:5 - and are Jeremiah 10:11 - they Jeremiah 10:14 - man Jeremiah 48:44 - the year Jeremiah 51:44 - I will punish Jeremiah 51:47 - do judgment upon 1 Corinthians 8:4 - we know

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A transcript of Jeremiah 10:12-16.


 
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