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Jeremiah 10

Jer. 10:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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They are vanity
hebel (Hebrew #1892)
from 1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
KJV usage: X altogether, vain, vanity.
Pronounce: heh'bel
Origin: or (rarely in the abs.) habel {hab-ale'}
, and the work
ma`aseh (Hebrew #4639)
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
KJV usage: act, art, + bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, X well, ((handy-, needle-, net-))work(ing, - manship), wrought.
Pronounce: mah-as-eh'
Origin: from 6213
of errors
ta`tua` (Hebrew #8595)
a fraud
KJV usage: error.
Pronounce: tah-too'-ah
Origin: from 8591
: in the time
`eth (Hebrew #6256)
time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.
KJV usage: + after, (al-)ways, X certain, + continually, + evening, long, (due) season, so (long) as, (even-, evening-, noon-)tide, ((meal-)), what) time, when.
Pronounce: ayth
Origin: from 5703
of their visitation
pquddah (Hebrew #6486)
visitation (in many senses, chiefly official)
KJV usage: account, (that have the) charge, custody, that which...laid up, numbers, office(-r), ordering, oversight, + prison, reckoning, visitation.
Pronounce: pek-ood-daw'
Origin: feminine passive participle of 6485
they shall perish
'abad (Hebrew #6)
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
KJV usage: break, destroy(- uction), + not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, X and surely, take, be undone, X utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.
Pronounce: aw-bad'
Origin: a primitive root
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Cross References

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Jer. 10:8• 8But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock. (Jer. 10:8)
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Jer. 8:19• 19Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people, from a very far country: Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, with foreign vanities? (Jer. 8:19)
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Jer. 14:22• 22Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? Art not thou HE, Jehovah, our God? And we wait upon thee; for thou hast made all these things. (Jer. 14:22)
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Jer. 51:18• 18They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. (Jer. 51:18)
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Deut. 32:21• 21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is no *God; They have exasperated me with their vanities; And I will move them to jealousy with that which is not a people; With a foolish nation will I provoke them to anger. (Deut. 32:21)
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1 Sam. 12:21• 21and turn ye not aside; for it would be after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain. (1 Sam. 12:21)
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Isa. 41:24,29• 24Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you. …
 29Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nought, their molten images are wind and emptiness. (Isa. 41:24,29)
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Jonah 2:8• 8They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. (Jonah 2:8)
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Acts 14:15• 15and saying, Men, why do ye these things? *We* also are men of like passions with you, preaching to you to turn from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things in them; (Acts 14:15)
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Jer. 10:11• 11Thus shall ye say unto them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens. (Jer. 10:11)
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Jer. 8:12• 12Are they ashamed that they have committed abomination? Nay, they are not at all ashamed, and they know not how to blush. Therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall stumble, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 8:12)
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Isa. 2:18‑21• 18and the idols shall utterly pass away.
 19And they shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to terrify the earth.
 20In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made each for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
 21to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the fissures of the cliffs, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to terrify the earth. (Isa. 2:18‑21)
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Zeph. 1:3‑4• 3I will take away man and beast; I will take away the fowl of the heavens and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks with the wicked, and I will cut off mankind from off the face of the ground, saith Jehovah.
 4And I will stretch forth my hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, the name of the Chemarim with the priests; (Zeph. 1:3‑4)
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Zech. 13:2• 2And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah 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. (Zech. 13:2)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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b
Or "mockery."