Jeremiah 51:18
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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, 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, objects to be ridiculed. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They can't breathe. They are worthless jokes. When they are punished, they will disappear.

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

American King James Version
They are vanity, 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 works, and worthy to be laughed at, 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, 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 errors, In the time of their inspection they perish.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

51:1-58 The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to again. Babylon is abundant in treasures, yet neither her waters nor her wealth shall secure her. Destruction comes when they did not think of it. Wherever we are, in the greatest depths, at the greatest distances, we are to remember the Lord our God; and in the times of the greatest fears and hopes, it is most needful to remember the Lord. The feeling excited by Babylon's fall is the same with the New Testament Babylon, Re 18:9,19. The ruin of all who support idolatry, infidelity, and superstition, is needful for the revival of true godliness; and the threatening prophecies of Scripture yield comfort in this view. The great seat of antichristian tyranny, idolatry, and superstition, the persecutor of true Christians, is as certainly doomed to destruction as ancient Babylon. Then will vast multitudes mourn for sin, and seek the Lord. Then will the lost sheep of the house of Israel be brought back to the fold of the good Shepherd, and stray no more. And the exact fulfilment of these ancient prophecies encourages us to faith in all the promises and prophecies of the sacred Scriptures.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. See Gill on Jeremiah 10:15.

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Song of Praise
…17Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 18They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. 19The 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.

Jeremiah 10:14 Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by his idols. The images he makes are a fraud; they have no breath in them.
Jeremiah 10:15 They are worthless, the objects of mockery; when their judgment comes, they will perish.
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.