Jeremiah 10:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Isa 41:24 : 24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you.
Jer 14:22 : 22 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Jehovah our God? therefore we will wait for thee; for thou hast made all these things.
Jer 51:18 : 18 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Jonah 2:8 : 8 They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.
Zech 13:2 : 2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah 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 the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
Isa 2:18-21 : 18 And the idols shall utterly pass away. 19 And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth. 20 In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats; 21 to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.
Jer 8:12 : 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 shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.
Jer 8:19 : 19 Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: Is not Jehovah in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign vanities?
Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
Jer 10:11 : 11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.
Isa 41:29 : 29 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity [and] nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.
Deut 32:21 : 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; They have provoked me to anger with their vanities: And I will move them to jealousy with those that are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
1 Sam 12:21 : 21 and turn ye not aside; for [then would ye go] after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
Acts 14:15 : 15 and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good tidings, that ye should turn from these vain things unto a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is:
Zeph 1:3-4 : 3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the birds of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the face of the ground, saith Jehovah. 4 And I will stretch out my hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, [and] the name of the Chemarim with the priests;

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Jer 51:17-18
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17Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
18They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Isa 41:29
82%
29Behold, all of them, their works are vanity [and] nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.
Isa 44:9-11
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80%
9They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses see not, nor know: that they may be put to shame.
10Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
11Behold, all his fellows shall be put to shame; and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; they shall fear, they shall be put to shame together.
Jer 10:14
79%
14Every man is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Jer 10:8
79%
8But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
Ps 135:15-18
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77%
15The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.
16They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not;
17They have ears, but they hear not; Neither is there any breath in their mouths.
18They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them.
Ps 115:4
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4Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.
Ps 115:7-8
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76%
7They have hands, but they handle not; Feet have they, but they walk not; Neither speak they through their throat.
8They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them.
Isa 2:8
74%
8Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
Job 4:20
73%
20Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.
Isa 45:16
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16They shall be put to shame, yea, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together that are makers of idols.
Isa 26:14
73%
14[They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish.
Hab 2:13
73%
13Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
Job 6:18
73%
18The caravans [that travel] by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.
Isa 41:24
73%
24Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you.
Hab 2:18
73%
18What profiteth the graven image, that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he that fashioneth its form trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Isa 2:18
73%
18And the idols shall utterly pass away.
Isa 37:19
72%
19and have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
Hos 10:1-2
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72%
1Israel is a luxuriant vine, that putteth forth his fruit: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars; according to the goodness of their land they have made goodly [ pillars.]
2Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he will smite their altars, he will destroy their pillars.
Job 15:31
72%
31Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.
Jer 10:11
72%
11Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.
Jer 16:20
72%
20Shall a man make unto himself gods, which yet are no gods?
Ezek 7:20
72%
20As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations [and] their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it unto them as an unclean thing.
Ps 28:5
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5Because they regard not the works of Jehovah, Nor the operation of his hands, He will break them down and not build them up.
Ps 78:33
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33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.
Jer 6:29
71%
29The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.
Jer 10:3
71%
3For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
Ezek 13:6
71%
6They have seen falsehood and lying divination, that say, Jehovah saith; but Jehovah hath not sent them: and they have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.
Isa 31:7
71%
7For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
Isa 40:17-18
2 verses
71%
17All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
18To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
Isa 42:17
71%
17They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly put to shame, that trust in graven images, that say unto molten images, Ye are our gods.
2 Kgs 19:18
71%
18and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
Ps 62:9
71%
9Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.
Zech 10:2
71%
2For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams, they comfort in vain: therefore they go their way like sheep, they are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.
Ezek 21:29
71%
29while they see for thee false visions, while they divine lies unto thee, to lay thee upon the necks of the wicked that are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.
Hos 8:6
71%
6For from Israel is even this; the workman made it, and it is no God; yea, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
Nah 1:10
71%
10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.
Isa 17:8
71%
8And they shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.
Ps 39:6
71%
6[Surely every man] [walketh] [in a vain show;] [Surely they are disquieted] [in vain:] [He heapeth up] [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Hos 13:3
71%
3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that passeth early away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
Ps 144:4
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4Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.