Jeremiah 51:17

Coverdale Bible (1535)

By the reason of wy?dome, all men are become fooles. Confounded be all the casters of ymages: for ye thinge that they make, is but disceate, & hath no breath.

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  • Jer 10:14 : 14 His wisdome maketh all men fooles. And confunded be all casters of ymages, for that they cast, is but a vayne thinge, and hath no life.
  • Hab 2:18-19 : 18 What helpe than wil ye ymage do, whom the workman hath fashioned? Or the vayne cast ymage, wherin because the craftesman putteth his trust, therfore maketh he domme Idols? 19 Wo vnto him, that saieth to a pece of wod: arise, and to a domme stone: stonde vp. For what instruccio maye soch one geue? Beholde, it is layed ouer with golde and syluer, & there is no breth in it.
  • Isa 44:18-20 : 18 Yet men nether considre ner vnderstonde, because their eyes are stopped, that they can not se: and their hertes, that they cannot perceaue. 19 They pondre not in their myndes (for they haue nether knowlege ner vnderstodinge) to thinke thus: I haue bret one pece in the fyre, I haue baked bred wt ye coles there of, I haue rosted flesh withall, & eaten it: Shal I now of the residue make an abhominacion, and fall downe before a rotten pece of wodd? 20 The kepinge of dust, and folishnesse of herte hath turned them a syde: so that none of them can haue a fre conscience to thinke: maye not I erre?
  • Rom 1:20-23 : 20 that the inuisible thinges of God (that is, his euerlastinge power and Godheade) mighte be sene whyle they are considered by the workes from the creacion of the worlde: so that they are without excuse, 21 in as moch as they knewe, that there is a God, and haue not praysed him as God ner thanked him, but became vayne in their ymaginacions, and their foolish hert was blynded. 22 Whan they counted them selues wyse, they became fooles: 23 and turned ye glory of the incorruptible God in to ye symilitude of ye ymage of a corruptible ma, & of byrdes, & of foure foted, & of crepinge beestes
  • 1 Cor 1:19-21 : 19 For it is wrytte: I wyl destroye the wyssdome of the wyse, & wil cast away the vnderstondinge of ye prudet. 20 Where are the wyse? Where are ye scrybes? where are ye disputers of this worlde? 21 Hath not God made the wyssdome of this worlde foolishnesse? For in so moch as the worlde by the wyssdome therof knewe not God in his wyssdome, it pleased God thorow foolish preachinge to saue them yt beleue.
  • Jer 50:2 : 2 Preach amonge the Gentiles, let youre voyce be herde, make a toke: crie out, kepe no sylence, but saye: Babilon shal be wonne, Bel shalhe cofounded, and Merodach shalbe ouer come. Yee their goddes shal be brought to shame, and their ymages shall stonde in feare.
  • Ps 14:2 : 2 The LORDE loked downe fro heaue vpo the children of men, to se yf there were eny, that wolde vnderstonde & seke after God. But they are all gone out of the waye, they are alltogether become vnprofitable: there is none that doth good, no not one.
  • Ps 53:1-2 : 1 The foolish bodies saye in their hertes: Tush, there is no God. Corrupte are they, and become abhominable in their wickednesses: there is not one, that doth good. 2 God loked downe from heauen vpo the children of men, to se yf there were eny that wolde vnderstonde, or seke after God.
  • Ps 92:5-6 : 5 O LORDE, how glorious are thy workes, thy thoughtes are very depe. 6 An vnwyse man wil not knowe this, & a foole wil not vnderstode it.
  • Ps 115:5 : 5 They haue mouthes, and speake not: eyes haue they, but they se not.
  • Ps 115:8 : 8 They that made them, are like vnto them, and so are all soch as put their trust in them.
  • Ps 135:17-18 : 17 They haue eares, and yet they heare not, nether is there eny breth i their mouthes. 18 They that make them, are like vnto them, & so are all they that put their trust in the.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Jer 10:14-15
    2 verses
    97%

    14His wisdome maketh all men fooles. And confunded be all casters of ymages, for that they cast, is but a vayne thinge, and hath no life.

    15The vayne craftes men with their workes, that they in their vanite haue made, shall perish one with another in the tyme of visitacion.

  • Jer 51:18
    82%

    18Vayne is it, & worthy to be laughed at: & in the tyme of visitacion it shal perish.

  • Isa 44:9-11
    3 verses
    80%

    9Wherfore all caruers of Idols are but vayne, and their laboure lost. They must beare recorde them selues, that (seinge they can nether se ner vnderstonde) they shalbe confounded.

    10Who shulde now make a god, or fashio an Idol, that is profitable for nothinge?

    11Beholde all the felashippe of the must be brought to confucion. Let all the workmasters of them come and stonde together from amonge men: they must be abashed and confouded one with another.

  • Hab 2:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18What helpe than wil ye ymage do, whom the workman hath fashioned? Or the vayne cast ymage, wherin because the craftesman putteth his trust, therfore maketh he domme Idols?

    19Wo vnto him, that saieth to a pece of wod: arise, and to a domme stone: stonde vp. For what instruccio maye soch one geue? Beholde, it is layed ouer with golde and syluer, & there is no breth in it.

  • Ps 135:15-18
    4 verses
    78%

    15As for the ymages of the Heithe, they are but syluer and golde, the worke of mens hades.

    16They haue mouthes, & speake not: eyes haue they, but they se not.

    17They haue eares, and yet they heare not, nether is there eny breth i their mouthes.

    18They that make them, are like vnto them, & so are all they that put their trust in the.

  • Jer 10:8-9
    2 verses
    78%

    8They are all together vnlerned and vnwise, All their connynge is but vanite:

    9namely, wod, syluer, which is brought out of Tharsis, and beate to plates: and golde from Ophir, a worke yt is made with the honde of the craftesman & the caster, clothed with yalow sylck and scarlet: euen so is the worke of their wyse men all together.

  • Isa 41:29
    77%

    29Lo, wicked are they & vayne, with the thinges also that they take in honde: yee wynde are they, and emptynesse, with their ymages together.

  • Isa 40:18-20
    3 verses
    77%

    18To whom then will ye licke God? or what similitude will ye set vp vnto him?

    19Shal the caruer make him a carued ymage? and shal the goldsmyth couer him with golde, or cast him in to a fourme of syluer plates?

    20Morouer shal the ymage maker (yt the poore man which is disposed, maye haue somthinge to set vp also) seke out and chose a tre, that is not rotten, and carue ther out an ymage, yt moueth not?

  • Ps 115:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

    7They haue handes and handle not, fete haue they, but they can not go, nether can they speake thorow their throte.

    8They that made them, are like vnto them, and so are all soch as put their trust in them.

  • Ps 115:4
    76%

    4Their ymages are but syluer and golde, euen the worke of mens hodes.

  • Isa 44:17-19
    3 verses
    75%

    17And of the residue, he maketh him a god, and an Idol for himself. He kneleth before it, he worshippeth it, he prayeth vnto it, and sayeth: delyuer me, for thou art my god.

    18Yet men nether considre ner vnderstonde, because their eyes are stopped, that they can not se: and their hertes, that they cannot perceaue.

    19They pondre not in their myndes (for they haue nether knowlege ner vnderstodinge) to thinke thus: I haue bret one pece in the fyre, I haue baked bred wt ye coles there of, I haue rosted flesh withall, & eaten it: Shal I now of the residue make an abhominacion, and fall downe before a rotten pece of wodd?

  • Jer 16:20
    74%

    20How can a man make those his goddes, which are not able to be goddes?

  • Isa 31:7
    73%

    7For in yt daye euery man shal cast out his Idols of syluer and golde, which ye haue made with youre synful hondes.

  • Isa 42:17
    73%

    17And therfore let them conuerte, and be ashamed earnestly, that hope in Idols, & saye to fashioned ymages: ye are oure godes.

  • Isa 45:16
    73%

    16Confounded be ye, and put to dishonoure: go hence together with shame, all ye that be workmasters of erroure: (that is worshippers of Idols)

  • Isa 2:8
    72%

    8Inmediatly was it ful of Idols also, euen workes of youre owne hondes, which ye youre selues haue facioned, and youre fyngers haue made.

  • Isa 44:15
    72%

    15which wodde serueth for me to burne. Of this he taketh and warmeth himself withall: he maketh a fyre of it to bake bred. And after warde maketh a god there of, to honoure it: and an Idol, to knele before it.

  • Jer 6:28-29
    2 verses
    72%

    28For they are all vnfaithful and fallen awaye, they hange vpon shameful lucre, they are clene brasse and yron, for they hurte and destroye euery man.

    29The bellous are brent in the fyre, the leade is consumed, the melter melteth in vayne, for the euel is not taken awaye from them.

  • Ps 92:6
    72%

    6An vnwyse man wil not knowe this, & a foole wil not vnderstode it.

  • Rom 1:22-23
    2 verses
    72%

    22Whan they counted them selues wyse, they became fooles:

    23and turned ye glory of the incorruptible God in to ye symilitude of ye ymage of a corruptible ma, & of byrdes, & of foure foted, & of crepinge beestes

  • Deut 27:15
    71%

    15Cursed be he, that maketh eny carued Idoll or molten ymage (an abhominacion of the LORDE, a worke of the handes of ye craftesman) and putteth it in a secrete place. And all the people shal answere and saye, Amen.

  • Isa 46:6
    71%

    6Ye fooles (no doute) wil take out syluer and golde out of youre purses, and weye it, and hyre a goldsmyth to make a god of it, that men maye knele downe and worshipe it.

  • Isa 37:19
    71%

    19& cast their goddes in the fyre. Notwithstodinge those were no goddes but the workes of mens hondes, of wodd or stone, therfore haue they destroyed them.

  • Ps 97:7
    71%

    7Cofounded be all they that worshipe ymages, and delite in their Idols: worshipe him all ye goddes.

  • Hos 13:2
    71%

    2And now they synne more and more: of their syluer, they make them molten ymages, like the Idols of the Heithen, and yet all is nothinge but the worke of the craftesman. Notwithstodinge they preach of the same: who so wil kysse the calues, offreth to men.

  • Hos 8:6
    70%

    6For the calfe came from Israel, the worke man made it, therfore can it be no God, but euen to a spyders webbe shal ye calfe of Samaria be turned.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6Beholde, thou hast made my dayes a spanne longe, and my life is as it were nothinge before the. O how vayne are all men lyuynge?

  • Isa 17:8
    70%

    8And shal not turne to the aulters that are ye worke of his owne hodes, nether shal he loke vpon groaues & ymages, which his fyngers haue wrought.

  • Isa 29:16
    70%

    16Which ymaginacion of yours is euen as when the potters claye taketh advisemet, as though the worke might saye to ye worke master: make me not, or as when an erthen vessel saieth of the potter: he vnderstondeth not.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    70%

    18and haue cast their goddes in the fyre: for they were not Goddes, but ye worke of mes hondes, wodd and stone, therfore haue they destroyed them.

  • Prov 19:3
    69%

    3Foolishnesse maketh a man to go out of his waye, & then is his herte vnpacient agaynst the LORDE.

  • Isa 2:22
    69%

    22Every man can eschue a persone moued in anger, for what doth he wysely?

  • Ezek 22:18
    69%

    18Thou sonne of man, the house of Israel is turned to drosse. C All they that shulde be brasse, tynne, yro & leade, are in the fyre become drosse.

  • Jer 10:3
    69%

    3Yee all the customes and lawes of the Getiles are nothinge, but vanite. They hewe downe a tre in the wod with the hondes of the worke man, and fashion it with the axe: