Bible verse
They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
Jeremiah 10:15 · BSB
The verses around it, from Jeremiah 10.
11 Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”
12 The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
13 When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
14 Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
15 They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
16 The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.
17 Gather up your belongings from this land, you who live under siege.
18 For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, at this time I will sling out the inhabitants of the land and bring distress upon them so that they may be captured.”
19 Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, “This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it.”
KJV
They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
ASV
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
ERV
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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