Jeremiah 51:18
They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Jeremiah 51:18 in other translations
| BSB | They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish. |
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| WEB | They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation, they will perish. |
| ASV | They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. |
| YLT | Vanity are they--work of errors, In the time of their inspection they perish. |
| DARBY | They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. |
| BBE | They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them. |
| Webster | They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. |
What does Jeremiah 51:18 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 51:15-19
15-19. Repeated from Jr 10:12-16; except that "Israel" is not in the Hebrew of Jr 51:19, which ought, therefore, to be translated, "He is the Former of all things, and (therefore) of the rod of His inheritance" (that is, of the nation peculiarly His own). In Jr 10:1-25 the contrast is between the idols and God; here it is between the power of populous Babylon and that of God: "Thou dwellest upon many waters" (Jr…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 51:1-58
Babylon's doom; God's controversy with her; encouragements from thence to the Israel of God. (Jr 51:1-58) The confirming of this. (Jr 51:59-64) Verses 1-58 The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to again. Babylon is abundant in treasures, yet neither her waters nor her wealth shall secure her. Destruction comes when they did not think of it. Wherever we…
Jeremiah 51:18 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jeremiah 51:18
- Jeremiah 46:25
The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:
- Jonah 2:8
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
- Jeremiah 48:7
For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.
- Zephaniah 2:11
The Lord will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.
- Isaiah 19:1
The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
- Jeremiah 10:15
They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
- Jeremiah 43:12-13
And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace. He shall break also the images of Beth–shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
- Jeremiah 18:15
Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
- Acts 14:15
And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
- Jeremiah 10:8
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
- Jeremiah 50:2
Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
- Isaiah 46:1
Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.
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Context
- Jeremiah 51:17
Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
- Jeremiah 51:18
They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
- Jeremiah 51:19
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.
Jeremiah 51:18 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Vanidad son, obra de irrisiones; en el tiempo de su visitación perecerán. |
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| 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 opera, et risu digna: in tempore visitationis suæ peribunt. |