Jeremiah 10:15
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New International Version (©2011)
They are worthless, the objects of mockery; when their judgment comes, they will perish.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Idols are worthless; they are ridiculous lies! On the day of reckoning they will all be destroyed.

English Standard Version (©2001)
They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
They are worthless, a work of mockery; In the time of their punishment they will perish.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
They are worthless, a work to be mocked. At the time of their punishment they will be destroyed.

International Standard Version (©2012)
They're worthless, a work of mockery, and when the time of punishment comes, they'll perish.

NET Bible (©2006)
They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They are worthless jokes. When they are punished, they disappear.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their judgment they shall perish.

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

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
They are vanity, a work of delusion: 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.

Webster's Bible Translation
They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

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

Young's Literal Translation
Vanity are they, work of erring ones, In the time of their inspection they perish.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:1-16 The prophet shows the glory of Israel's God, and exposes the folly of idolaters. Charms and other attempts to obtain supernatural help, or to pry into futurity, are copied from the wicked customs of the heathen. Let us stand in awe, and not dare provoke God, by giving that glory to another which is due to him alone. He is ready to forgive, and save all who repent and believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ. Faith learns these blessed truths from the word of God; but all knowledge not from that source, leads to doctrines of vanity.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 15. - The very essence of idols is vanity; they are unreal as "a breath;" they are, not so much the work of errors as a work of mockery, i.e. not opus rise dignum, but a work which rewards the efforts bestowed upon its production by disappointment.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

15. errors—deceptions; from a Hebrew root, "to stutter"; then meaning "to mock."

their visitation they—When God shall punish the idol-worshippers (namely, by Cyrus), the idols themselves shall be destroyed [Rosenmuller] (Jer 10:11).

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The Sovereignty of God
…14Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 15They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. 16The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.

Isaiah 41:24 But you are less than nothing and your works are utterly worthless; whoever chooses you is detestable.
Jeremiah 8:12 Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when they are punished, says the LORD.
Jeremiah 8:19 Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: "Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?" "Why have they aroused my anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?"
Jeremiah 14:22 Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies themselves send down showers? No, it is you, LORD our God. Therefore our hope is in you, for you are the one who does all this.
Jeremiah 18:15 Yet my people have forgotten me; they burn incense to worthless idols, which made them stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths. They made them walk in byways, on roads not built up.
Jeremiah 51:18 They are worthless, the objects of mockery; when their judgment comes, they will perish.
Hosea 9:7 The days of punishment are coming, the days of reckoning are at hand. Let Israel know this. Because your sins are so many and your hostility so great, the prophet is considered a fool, the inspired person a maniac.