Jeremiah 51:17

World English Bible (2000)

Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

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  • Jer 10:14 : 14 Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
  • Hab 2:18-19 : 18 "What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols? 19 Woe to him who says to the wood, 'Awake!' or to the mute stone, 'Arise!' Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in its midst.
  • Isa 44:18-20 : 18 They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand. 19 No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, "I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?" 20 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, "Isn't there a lie in my right hand?"
  • Rom 1:20-23 : 20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse. 21 Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.
  • 1 Cor 1:19-21 : 19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing." 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
  • Jer 50:2 : 2 Declare among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don't conceal: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed; her images are disappointed, her idols are dismayed.
  • Ps 14:2 : 2 Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who did understand, who did seek after God.
  • Ps 53:1-2 : 1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good. 2 God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.
  • Ps 92:5-6 : 5 How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep. 6 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:
  • Ps 115:5 : 5 They have mouths, but they don't speak. They have eyes, but they don't see.
  • Ps 115:8 : 8 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.
  • Ps 135:17-18 : 17 They have ears, but they can't hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths. 18 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 10:14-15
    2 verses
    97%

    14Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

    15They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  • Jer 51:18
    82%

    18They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  • Isa 44:9-11
    3 verses
    80%

    9Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don't see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

    10Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?

    11Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They will fear. They will be put to shame together.

  • Hab 2:18-19
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    80%

    18"What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

    19Woe to him who says to the wood, 'Awake!' or to the mute stone, 'Arise!' Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in its midst.

  • Ps 135:15-18
    4 verses
    78%

    15The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

    16They have mouths, but they can't speak. They have eyes, but they can't see.

    17They have ears, but they can't hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

    18Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

  • Jer 10:8-9
    2 verses
    78%

    8But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

    9There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men.

  • Isa 41:29
    77%

    29Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

  • Isa 40:18-20
    3 verses
    77%

    18To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

    19A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.

    20He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.

  • Ps 115:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

    7They have hands, but they don't feel. They have feet, but they don't walk, neither do they speak through their throat.

    8Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

  • Ps 115:4
    76%

    4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • Isa 44:17-19
    3 verses
    75%

    17The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, "Deliver me; for you are my god!"

    18They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.

    19No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, "I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?"

  • Jer 16:20
    74%

    20Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?

  • Isa 31:7
    73%

    7For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold--sin which your own hands have made for you.

  • Isa 42:17
    73%

    17"Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, 'You are our gods' will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.

  • Isa 45:16
    73%

    16They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.

  • Isa 2:8
    72%

    8Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.

  • Isa 44:15
    72%

    15Then it will be for a man to burn; and he takes some of it, and warms himself. Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread. Yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved image, and falls down to it.

  • Jer 6:28-29
    2 verses
    72%

    28They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.

    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.

  • Ps 92:6
    72%

    6A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:

  • Rom 1:22-23
    2 verses
    72%

    22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

    23and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

  • Deut 27:15
    71%

    15'Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' All the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'

  • Isa 46:6
    71%

    6Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down--yes, they worship.

  • Isa 37:19
    71%

    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.

  • Ps 97:7
    71%

    7Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!

  • Hos 13:2
    71%

    2Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, 'They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.'

  • Hos 8:6
    70%

    6For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

  • Ps 39:6
    70%

    6"Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

  • Isa 17:8
    70%

    8They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the incense altars.

  • Isa 29:16
    70%

    16You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, "He didn't make me;" or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding?"

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    70%

    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.

  • Prov 19:3
    69%

    3The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

  • Isa 2:22
    69%

    22Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

  • Ezek 22:18
    69%

    18Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.

  • Jer 10:3
    69%

    3For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.