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.
Context
This verse from Jeremiah Chapter 51 connects to 10 cross-references. The oracle against Babylon continues with instructions for Judah's departure: flee out of the midst of Babylon. God's vengeance for Zion's temple is the theme. Jeremiah orders the scroll of Babylon's doom to be tied to a stone and cast …
Other Translations
Every man is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Brutish hath been every man by knowledge, Put to shame hath been every refiner by a graven image, For false <FI>is<Fi> his molten image, And there is no breath in them.
Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.
Cross References
He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is …
They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that …
Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, …
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is …
Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is …
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, …
They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.
They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.
They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: