Jeremiah 10:15

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They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 41:24 : 24 Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent; the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting.
  • Jer 14:22 : 22 Do any of the worthless idols of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? So we put our hopes in you because you alone do all this.”
  • Jer 51:18 : 18 They are worthless, objects to be ridiculed. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.
  • Jonah 2:8 : 8 Those who worship worthless idols forfeit the mercy that could be theirs.
  • Zech 13:2 : 2 And also on that day,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“I will remove the names of the idols from the land and they will never again be remembered. Moreover, I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.
  • Isa 2:18-21 : 18 The worthless idols will be completely eliminated. 19 They will go into caves in the rocky cliffs and into holes in the ground, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the LORD and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth. 20 At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live, 21 so they themselves can go into the crevices of the rocky cliffs and the openings under the rocky overhangs, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the LORD and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.
  • Jer 8:12 : 12 Are they ashamed because they have done such disgusting things? No, they are not at all ashamed! They do not even know how to blush! So they will die just like others have died. They will be brought to ruin when I punish them, says the LORD.
  • Jer 8:19 : 19 I hear my dear people crying out throughout the length and breadth of the land. They are crying,‘Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her divine King no longer there?’” The LORD answers,“Why then do they provoke me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!
  • Jer 10:11 : 11 You people of Israel should tell those nations this:‘These gods did not make heaven and earth. They will disappear from the earth and from under the heavens.’
  • Isa 41:29 : 29 Look, all of them are nothing, their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance.
  • Deut 32:21 : 21 They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.
  • 1 Sam 12:21 : 21 You should not turn aside after empty things that can’t profit and can’t deliver, since they are empty.
  • Acts 14:15 : 15 “Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.
  • Zeph 1:3-4 : 3 “I will destroy people and animals; I will destroy the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea.(The idolatrous images of these creatures will be destroyed along with evil people.) I will remove humanity from the face of the earth,” says the LORD. 4 “I will attack Judah and all who live in Jerusalem. I will remove from this place every trace of Baal worship, as well as the very memory of the pagan priests.

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  • Jer 51:17-18
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    17All idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.

    18They are worthless, objects to be ridiculed. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

  • Isa 41:29
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    29Look, all of them are nothing, their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance.

  • Isa 44:9-11
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    9All who form idols are nothing; the things in which they delight are worthless. Their witnesses cannot see; they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.

    10Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?

    11Look, all his associates will be put to shame; the craftsmen are mere humans. Let them all assemble and take their stand! They will panic and be put to shame.

  • Jer 10:14
    79%

    14All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.

  • Jer 10:8
    79%

    8The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!

  • Ps 135:15-18
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    15The nations’ idols are made of silver and gold, they are man-made.

    16They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see,

    17and ears, but cannot hear. Indeed, they cannot breathe.

    18Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.

  • Ps 115:4
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    4Their idols are made of silver and gold– they are man-made.

  • Ps 115:7-8
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    7hands, but cannot touch, feet, but cannot walk. They cannot even clear their throats.

    8Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.

  • Isa 2:8
    74%

    8Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned.

  • Job 4:20
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    20They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

  • Isa 45:16
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    16They will all be ashamed and embarrassed; those who fashion idols will all be humiliated.

  • Isa 26:14
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    14The dead do not come back to life, the spirits of the dead do not rise. That is because you came in judgment and destroyed them, you wiped out all memory of them.

  • Hab 2:13
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    13Be sure of this! The LORD of Heaven’s Armies has decreed: The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.

  • Job 6:18
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    18Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.

  • Isa 41:24
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    24Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent; the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting.

  • Hab 2:18
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    18What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things?

  • Isa 2:18
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    18The worthless idols will be completely eliminated.

  • Isa 37:19
    72%

    19They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.

  • Hos 10:1-2
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    72%

    1Israel is Guilty of Fertility Cult Worship Israel was a fertile vine that yielded fruit. As his fruit multiplied, he multiplied altars to Baal. As his land prospered, they adorned the fertility pillars.

    2Their hearts are slipping; soon they will be punished for their guilt. The LORD will break their altars; he will completely destroy their fertility pillars.

  • Job 15:31
    72%

    31Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward.

  • Jer 10:11
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    11You people of Israel should tell those nations this:‘These gods did not make heaven and earth. They will disappear from the earth and from under the heavens.’

  • Jer 16:20
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    20Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all.”

  • Ezek 7:20
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    20They rendered the beauty of his ornaments into pride, and with it they made their abominable images– their detestable idols. Therefore I will render it filthy to them.

  • Ps 28:5
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    5For they do not understand the LORD’s actions, or the way he carries out justice. The LORD will permanently demolish them.

  • Ps 78:33
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    33So he caused them to die unsatisfied and filled with terror.

  • Jer 6:29
    71%

    29The fiery bellows of judgment burn fiercely. But there is too much dross to be removed. The process of refining them has proved useless. The wicked have not been purged.

  • Jer 10:3
    71%

    3For the religion of these people is worthless. They cut down a tree in the forest, and a craftsman makes it into an idol with his tools.

  • Ezek 13:6
    71%

    6They see delusion and their omens are a lie. They say,“the LORD declares,” though the LORD has not sent them; yet they expect their word to be confirmed.

  • Isa 31:7
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    7For at that time everyone will get rid of the silver and gold idols your hands sinfully made.

  • Isa 40:17-18
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    17All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing.

    18To whom can you compare God? To what image can you liken him?

  • Isa 42:17
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    17Those who trust in idols will turn back and be utterly humiliated, those who say to metal images,‘You are our gods.’”

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
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    18They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.

  • Ps 62:9
    71%

    9Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.

  • Zech 10:2
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    2For the household gods have spoken wickedness, the soothsayers have seen a lie, and as for the dreamers, they have disclosed emptiness and give comfort in vain. Therefore the people set out like sheep and become scattered because they have no shepherd.

  • Ezek 21:29
    71%

    29while seeing false visions for you and reading lying omens for you– to place that sword on the necks of the profane wicked, whose day has come, the time of final punishment.

  • Hos 8:6
    71%

    6That idol was made by a workman– it is not God! The calf idol of Samaria will be broken to bits.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.

  • Isa 17:8
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    8They will no longer trust in the altars their hands made, or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”

  • Hos 13:3
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    3Therefore they will disappear like the morning mist, like early morning dew that evaporates, like chaff that is blown away from a threshing floor, like smoke that disappears through an open window.

  • Ps 144:4
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    4People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.