Jeremiah 10 · Verse 15

Jeremiah 10:15

They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Jeremiah 10:15, King James Version

Jeremiah 10:15 in other translations

BSBThey are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
WEBThey are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.
ASVThey are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
YLTVanity are they, work of erring ones, In the time of their inspection they perish.
DARBYThey are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
BBEThey are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
WebsterThey are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

What does Jeremiah 10:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
15. errors--deceptions; from a Hebrew root, "to stutter"; then meaning "to mock." their visitation they--When God shall punish the idol-worshippers (namely, by Cyrus), the idols themselves shall be destroyed [Rosenmuller] (Jr 10:11).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 10:1-16

The absurdity of idolatry. (Jr 10:1-16) Destruction denounced against Jerusalem. (Jr 10:17-25) Verses 1-16 The prophet shows the glory of Israel's God, and exposes the folly of idolaters. Charms and other attempts to obtain supernatural help, or to pry into futurity, are copied from the wicked customs of the heathen. Let us stand in awe, and not dare provoke God, by giving that glory to another which is due to him…

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Jeremiah 10:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הֶ֣בֶלHe.vel[are] futilityH1892
הֵ֔מָּהHe.mahtheyH1992
מַעֲשֵׂ֖הma.'a.Seha work ofH4639
תַּעְתֻּעִ֑יםta'.tu.'ImmockeryH8595
בְּעֵ֥תbe.'Etat [the] time ofH6256
פְּקֻדָּתָ֖םpe.ku.da.Tampunishment theirH6486
יֹאבֵֽדוּ\׃yo.Ve.duthey will perishH6

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Jeremiah 10:15

  • Isaiah 41:24

    Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.

  • Jeremiah 14:22

    Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.

  • Jeremiah 51:18

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

  • Jeremiah 8:12

    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 the Lord.

  • Jonah 2:8

    They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

  • Isaiah 2:18-21

    And the idols he shall utterly abolish. And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

  • Jeremiah 8:19

    Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the Lord in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?

  • Zechariah 13:2

    And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord 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.

  • Deuteronomy 32:21

    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 which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

  • Jeremiah 10:11

    Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.

  • Zephaniah 1:3-4

    I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the Lord. I will also stretch out mine 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 Chemarims with the priests;

  • 1 Samuel 12:21

    And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
vanity.
8; 8:19; 14:22; 51:18; De 32:21; 1Sa 12:21; Isa 41:24,29; Jon 2:8
Ac 14:15
in the.
11; 8:12; Isa 2:18-21; Zep 1:3,4; Zec 13:2

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Context

  • Jeremiah 10:14

    Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

  • Jeremiah 10:15

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

  • Jeremiah 10:16

    The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The Lord of hosts is his name.

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Jeremiah 10:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Vanidad son, obra de escarnios: en el tiempo de su visitación perecerán.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Elles sont vanité, un ouvrage de déception: elles périront au temps de leur visitation.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Nichtigkeit sind sie, ein Werk des Gespöttes: Zur Zeit ihrer Heimsuchung gehen sie zu Grunde.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Vana sunt, et opus risu dignum: in tempore visitationis suæ peribunt.