Jeremiah 10:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They are devoid of worth, usefulness, or truth, a work of delusion and mockery; in their time of trial and punishment they shall [helplessly] perish. American Standard Version (1901) They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. Common English Bible They are a delusion, a charade; at the appointed time they will vanish! Catholic Public Domain Version These things are empty, and they are a work deserving of ridicule. In the time of their visitation, they will perish. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They are vain things and a ridiculous work: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. |
You, indeed, are nothing, and your work is nothing at all; whoever chooses you is an abomination.
No, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their images are empty wind.
I will announce your verdict, and the objects you made will not help you.
Thus shall you say to them: The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.
They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction given by idols is no better than wood!
Can any idols of the nations bring rain, or can the heavens give showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for it is you who do all this.
But my people have forgotten me; they burn offerings to a delusion; they have stumbled in their ways, in the ancient roads, and have gone into bypaths, not the highway,
“I shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and carry them away captive, and he shall pick clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd picks his cloak clean of vermin, and he shall depart from there safely.
Declare among the nations and proclaim; set up a banner and proclaim; do not conceal it, say: “Babylon is taken; Bel is put to shame; Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame; her idols are dismayed.”
They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
They acted shamefully; they committed abomination, yet they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the Lord.
Listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from far and wide in the land: “Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” (“Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their foreign idols?”)
The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come. Israel will cry out, “The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad!” Because of your great iniquity, your hostility is great.
On that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more, and also I will remove from the land the prophets and the unclean spirit.
“People, why are you doing this? We are mortals just like you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.
They made me jealous with what is no god, provoked me with their idols. So I will make them jealous with what is no people, provoke them with a foolish nation.
and do not turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or save, for they are useless.
But when they rose early on the next morning, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord, and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off upon the threshold; only the trunk of Dagon was left to him.