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Jeremiah 51:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" “Every man has become stupid and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image, for his molten images are falsehood, and there is no breath in them. "

Jeremiah 51:17

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15 “He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

16 When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.

17 “Every man has become stupid and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image, for his molten images are falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

18 They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation, they will perish.

19 The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he formed all things, including the tribe of his inheritance. The LORD of Armies is his name.

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Jeremiah 10:14

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"Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them."

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Isaiah 41:29

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"Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion."

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Wisdom 15:9

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"However he has anxious care, not because his powers must fail, nor because his span of life is short; But he compares himself with goldsmiths and silversmiths, and he imitates molders in brass, and considers it great that he molds counterfeit gods."

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Wisdom 13:10

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"But they were miserable, and their hopes were in dead things, who called them gods which are works of men’s hands, gold and silver, skillfully made, and likenesses of animals, or a useless stone, the work of an ancient hand."

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Isaiah 44:9

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"Everyone who makes a carved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed."

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"For their tongue is polished by the workman, and they themselves are overlaid with gold and with silver; yet they are only fake, and can’t speak."

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Jeremiah 51:1

"The LORD says: “Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind."

Jeremiah 51:2

"I will send to Babylon strangers, who will winnow her. They will empty her land; for in the day of trouble they will be against her all around."

Jeremiah 51:3

"Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow, also against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail. Don’t spare her young men! Utterly destroy all her army!"

Jeremiah 51:4

"They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets."

Jeremiah 51:5

"For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, by his God, by the LORD of Armies; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel."

Jeremiah 51:6

"“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity, for it is the time of the LORD’s vengeance. He will give to her a recompense."

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