Jeremiah 51:18
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

vanity

Jeremiah 10:8,15 They shall be all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood. . . .

Jonah 2:8 When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come to thee, unto the holy temple.

Acts 14:15 And saying: Ye men, why do ye these things? We also are mortals, men like unto you, preaching to you to be converted from these vain things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things that are in them:

in the

Jeremiah 43:12,13 And he shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them, and he shall carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment: and he shall go forth from thence in peace. . . .

Jeremiah 46:25 The Lord of hosts the God of Israel hath said: Behold I will visit upon the tumult of Alexandria, and upon Pharao, and upon Egypt, and upon her gods, and upon her kings, and upon Pharao, and upon them that trust in him.

Jeremiah 48:7 For because thou hast trusted in thy bulwarks, and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go into captivity, his priests, and his princes together.

Jeremiah 50:2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish it, lift up a standard: proclaim, and conceal it not: say: Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is overthrown, their graven things are confounded, their idols are overthrown.

Exodus 12:12 And I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and will kill every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast: and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments; I am the Lord.

Isaiah 19:1 The burden of Egypt. Behold the Lord will ascend upon a swift cloud, and will enter into Egypt, and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst thereof.

Isaiah 46:1 In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and praised.

Zephaniah 2:11 The Lord shall be terrible upon them, and shall consume all the gods of the earth: and they shall adore him every man from his own place, all the islands of the Gentiles.

Context
A Song of Praise
17Every man is become foolish by his knowledge: every founder is confounded by his idol, for what he hath cast is a lie, and there is no breath in them. 18They are vain works, and worthy to be laughed at, in the time of their visitation they shall perish.19The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he that made all things he it is, and Israel is the sceptre of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 10:14
Every man is become a fool for knowledge, every artist is confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there is no spirit in them.

Jeremiah 10:15
They are vain things, and a ridiculous work: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Jeremiah 18:15
Because my people have forgotten me, sacrificing in vain, and stumbling in their ways, in ancient paths, to walk by them in a way not trodden:

Lexicon
They
הֵ֔מָּה (hêm·māh)
Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1992: They

are worthless,
הֶ֣בֶל (he·ḇel)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1892: Emptiness, vanity, transitory, unsatisfactory

a work
מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה (ma·‘ă·śêh)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 4639: An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property

to be mocked.
תַּעְתֻּעִ֑ים (ta‘·tu·‘îm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8595: A fraud

In the time
בְּעֵ֥ת (bə·‘êṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - common singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6256: Time, now, when

of their punishment
פְּקֻדָּתָ֖ם (pə·qud·dā·ṯām)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6486: Oversight, mustering, visitation, store

they will perish.
יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃ (yō·ḇê·ḏū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6: To wander away, lose oneself, to perish


Additional Translations
They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vanity are they -- work of errors, In the time of their inspection they perish.
Jump to Previous
Delusion Destruction Error Errors Inspection Judgment Mockery Objects Overtake Perish Punishment Time Vanity Visitation Work Worthless
Jump to Next
Delusion Destruction Error Errors Inspection Judgment Mockery Objects Overtake Perish Punishment Time Vanity Visitation Work Worthless
Links
Jeremiah 51:18 NIV
Jeremiah 51:18 NLT
Jeremiah 51:18 ESV
Jeremiah 51:18 NASB
Jeremiah 51:18 KJV

Jeremiah 51:18 Bible Apps
Jeremiah 51:18 Biblia Paralela
Jeremiah 51:18 Chinese Bible
Jeremiah 51:18 French Bible
Jeremiah 51:18 German Bible

Alphabetical: a are comes In judgment mockery objects of perish punishment the their They time when will work worthless

OT Prophets: Jeremiah 51:18 They are vanity a work of delusion: (Jer.) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools

Jeremiah 51:17
Top of Page
Top of Page