Jeremiah 10:15
They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
KJV
Vana sunt, et opus risu dignum : in tempore visitationis suæ peribunt.
Vulgate
μάταιά ἐστιν ἔργα ἐνπεπαιγμένα, ἐν καιρῷ ἐπισκοπῆς αὐτῶν ἀπολοῦνται.
LXX
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
ASV
הֶ֣בֶל הֵ֔מָּה מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה תַּעְתֻּעִ֑ים בְּ/עֵ֥ת פְּקֻדָּתָ֖/ם יֹאבֵֽדוּ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
הֵ֖מָּה
hmh
pronoun · 560×
הָֽבֶל
hbl
noun · 73×
ם
m
verb · 183×
ם
m
noun · 32×
מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה
m'shh
noun · 234×
עֵ֣ת
't
verb · 293×
תַּעְתֻּעִ֑ים
t't'ym
noun · 2×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2112The first commandment condemns polytheism. It requires man neither to believe in, nor to venerate, other divinities than the one true God. Scripture constantly recalls this rejection of "idols, (of) silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see." These empty idols make their worshippers empty: "Those who make them are like th…
Cross-references
- 1Sam 12:21 — And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
- 2Kgs 17:15 — And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the hea
- Hos 9:7 — The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
- Isa 2:18 — And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
- Isa 41:24 — Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
- Jer 8:12 — Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they
- Jer 8:19 — Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their gra
- Jer 10:11 — Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
- Jer 14:22 — Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these t
- Jer 14:22 — Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these t
- Jer 18:15 — Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
- Jer 51:18 — They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
- Jonah 2:8 — They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
- Ps 31:6 — I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
- Zech 13:2 — And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and