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Jeremiah 10:15

Jeremiah 10:15 is verse 15 of Jeremiah chapter 10, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

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King James Version

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 will perish.

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Jeremiah 10:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible

13 When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

14 Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.

15 They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

16 The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance— the LORD of Hosts is His name.

17 Gather up your belongings from this land, you who live under siege.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

Jeremiah 8:19

Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”

Jeremiah 14:22

Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.

Jeremiah 51:18

They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

1 Samuel 12:21

Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.

Isaiah 41:24

Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.

Isaiah 41:29

See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.

Jonah 2:8

Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.

Acts 14:15

“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.

Jeremiah 10:11

Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”

Jeremiah 8:12

Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.

Isaiah 2:18

and the idols will vanish completely.

Isaiah 2:19

Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

Isaiah 2:20

In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold— the idols they made to worship.

Isaiah 2:21

They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

Zephaniah 1:3

“I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and the idols with their wicked worshipers. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.

Zephaniah 1:4

“I will stretch out My hand against Judah and against all who dwell in Jerusalem. I will cut off from this place every remnant of Baal, the names of the idolatrous and pagan priests—

Zechariah 13:2

And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.

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