Jeremiah 51:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Vanity `are' they -- work of errors, In the time of their inspection they perish.

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  • Exod 12:12 : 12 and I have passed over through the land of Egypt during this night, and have smitten every first-born in the land of Egypt, from man even unto beast, and on all the gods of Egypt I do judgments; I `am' Jehovah.
  • Isa 19:1 : 1 The burden of Egypt. Lo, Jehovah is riding on a swift thick cloud, And He hath entered Egypt, And moved have been the idols of Egypt at His presence, And the heart of Egypt melteth in its midst.
  • Isa 46:1 : 1 Bowed down hath Bel, stooping is Nebo, Their idols have been for the beast and for cattle, Your burdens are loaded, a burden to the weary.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities `is' the tree itself.
  • Jer 10:15 : 15 Vanity `are' they, work of erring ones, In the time of their inspection they perish.
  • Jer 18:15 : 15 But My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways -- paths of old, To walk in paths -- a way not raised up,
  • Jer 43:12-13 : 12 And I have kindled a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt, and it hath burned them, and he hath taken them captive, and covered himself with the land of Egypt, as cover himself doth the shepherd with his garment, and he hath gone forth thence in peace; 13 and he hath broken the standing pillars of the house of the sun, that `is' in the land of Egypt, and the houses of the gods of Egypt he doth burn with fire.'
  • Jer 46:25 : 25 Said hath Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am seeing after Amon of No, And after Pharaoh, and after Egypt, And after her gods, and after her kings, And after Pharaoh, and after those trusting in him,
  • Jer 48:7 : 7 For, because of thy trusting in thy works, And in thy treasures, even thou art captured, And gone out hath Chemosh in a removal, His priests and his heads together.
  • Jer 50:2 : 2 `Declare ye among nations, and sound, And lift up an ensign, sound, do not hide, Say ye: Captured hath been Babylon, Put to shame hath been Bel, Broken hath been Merodach, Put to shame have been her grievous things, Broken have been her idols.
  • Jonah 2:8 : 8 Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.
  • Zeph 2:11 : 11 Fearful `is' Jehovah against them, For He made bare all gods of the land, And bow themselves to Him, each from his place, Do all islanders of the nations.
  • Acts 14:15 : 15 and saying, `Men, why these things do ye? and we are men like-affected with you, proclaiming good news to you, from these vanities to turn unto the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them;

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  • Jer 10:14-15
    2 verses
    97%

    14Brutish is every man by knowledge, Put to shame is every refiner by a graven image, For false `is' his molten image. And there is no breath in them.

    15Vanity `are' they, work of erring ones, In the time of their inspection they perish.

  • 29`Lo, all of them `are' vanity, Nought `are' their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!'

  • 17Brutish hath been every man by knowledge, Put to shame hath been every refiner by a graven image, For false `is' his molten image, And there is no breath in them.

  • Isa 44:9-11
    3 verses
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    9Framers of a graven image `are' all of them emptiness, And their desirable things do not profit, And their own witnesses they `are', They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.

    10Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out -- not profitable?

    11Lo, all his companions are ashamed, As to artizans -- they `are' of men, All of them gather together, they stand up, They fear, they are ashamed together.

  • 8And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities `is' the tree itself.

  • Ps 135:15-18
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    77%

    15The idols of the nations `are' silver and gold, Work of the hands of man.

    16A mouth they have, and they speak not, Eyes they have, and they see not,

    17Ears they have, and they give not ear, Nose -- there is no breath in their mouth!

    18Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.

  • 4Their idols `are' silver and gold, work of man's hands,

  • 8Nor do they mutter through their throat, Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.

  • 18Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.

  • 8And its land is full of idols, To the work of its hands it boweth itself, To that which its fingers have made,

  • 18What profit hath a graven image given That its former hath graven it? A molten image and teacher of falsehood, That trusted hath the former on his own formation -- to make dumb idols?

  • 18And the idols -- they completely pass away.

  • 16They have been ashamed, And they have even blushed -- all of them, Together gone in confusion have those carving images.

  • 20From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, for ever they perish.

  • 24Lo, ye `are' of nothing, and your work of nought, An abomination -- it fixeth on you.

  • 19so as to put their gods into fire -- for they `are' no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone -- and they destroy them.

  • 18and have put their gods into fire, for they `are' no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone, and destroy them.

  • 13Lo, is it not from Jehovah of Hosts And peoples are fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary?

  • 17Removed backward -- utterly ashamed, Are those trusting in a graven image, Those saying to a molten image, `Ye `are' our gods.'

  • 33And He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble.

  • 14Dead -- they live not, Rephaim, they rise not, Therefore Thou hast inspected and dost destroy them, Yea, thou destroyest all their memory.

  • Isa 40:17-19
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    72%

    17All the nations `are' as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.

    18And unto whom do ye liken God, And what likeness do ye compare to Him?

    19The graven image poured out hath a artizan, And a refiner with gold spreadeth it over, And chains of silver he is refining.

  • 20Doth man make for himself gods, And they -- no gods?

  • 7For in that day despise doth each His idols of silver, and his idols of gold, That your hands made to you -- a sin.

  • 18They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,

  • 38A sword `is' on her waters, and they have been dried up, For it `is' a land of graven images, And in idols they do boast themselves.

  • 31Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.

  • 5For they attend not to the doing of Jehovah, And unto the work of His hands. He throweth them down, And doth not build them up.

  • 29In the seeing for thee of a vain thing, In the divining for thee of a lie, To put thee on the necks of the wounded of the wicked, whose day hath come, In the time of the iniquity of the end.

  • 20As to the beauty of his ornament, For excellency He set it, And the images of their abominations, Their detestable things -- they made in it, Therefore I have given it to them for impurity,

  • 6Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, `in' vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

  • 9Only -- vanity `are' the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity `are' lighter.

  • 29The bellows have been burnt, By fire hath the lead been consumed, In vain hath a refiner refined, And the wicked have not been drawn away.

  • 6For even it `is' of Israel; an artificer made it, And it `is' not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!

  • 11Thus do ye say to them, The gods Who the heavens and earth have not made, They do perish from the earth, And from under these heavens.

  • 6-- They are pouring out gold from a bag, And silver on the beam they weigh, They hire a refiner, and he maketh it a god, They fall down, yea, they bow themselves.

  • 19How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors.

  • 8And he looketh not unto the altars. The work of his own hands, And that which his own fingers made He seeth not -- the shrines and the images.

  • 6They have seen vanity, and lying divination, Who are saying: An affirmation of Jehovah, And Jehovah hath not sent them, And they have hoped to establish a word.

  • 4Man to vanity hath been like, His days `are' as a shadow passing by.

  • 8Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.

  • 16To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head.