Jeremiah 10:15
Good News Translation
They are worthless and should be despised; they will be destroyed when the LORD comes to deal with them.

New Revised Standard Version
They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

Contemporary English Version
Idols are merely a joke, and when the time is right, they will be destroyed.

New American Bible
They are nothing, objects of ridicule; they will perish in their time of punishment.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

vanity.

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

Jeremiah 8:19 Behold the voice of the daughter of my people from a far country: Is not the Lord in Sion, or is not her king in her? why then have they provoked me to wrath with their idols, and strange vanities?

Jeremiah 14:22 Are there any among the graven things of the Gentiles that can send rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou the Lord our God, whom we have looked for? for thou hast made all these things.

Jeremiah 51:18 They are vain works, and worthy to be laughed at, in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Deuteronomy 32:21 They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.

1 Samuel 12:21 And turn not aside after vain things, which shall never profit you, nor deliver you, because they are vain.

Isaiah 41:24,29 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination. . . .

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:

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Jeremiah 10:11 Thus then shall you say to them: The gods that have not made heaven and earth, let them perish from the earth, and from among those places that are under heaven.

Jeremiah 8:12 They are confounded, because they have committed abomination: yea rather they are not confounded with confusion, and they have not known how to blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall fall, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 2:18-21 And idols shall be utterly destroyed. . . .

Zephaniah 1:3,4 I will gather man, and beast, I will gather the birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea: and the ungodly shall meet with ruin: and I will destroy men from off the face of the land, saith the Lord. . . .

Zechariah 13:2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will destroy the names of idols out of the earth, and they shall be remembered no more: and I will take away the false prophets, and the unclean spirit out of the earth.

Context
The Sovereignty of God
14Every 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. 15They are vain things, and a ridiculous work: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.16The portion of Jacob is not like these: for it is he who formed all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.…
Cross References
Isaiah 41:24
Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.

Jeremiah 8:12
They are confounded, because they have committed abomination: yea rather they are not confounded with confusion, and they have not known how to blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall fall, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:19
Behold the voice of the daughter of my people from a far country: Is not the Lord in Sion, or is not her king in her? why then have they provoked me to wrath with their idols, and strange vanities?

Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the graven things of the Gentiles that can send rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou the Lord our God, whom we have looked for? for thou hast made all these things.

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:

Jeremiah 51:18
They are vain works, and worthy to be laughed at, in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Hosea 9:7
The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy madness.

Jeremiah 10:14
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