Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Every man was brutish from knowledge; every founder was ashamed from his carved image: for his founding is a falsehood, and no spirit in them.
New American Standard Bible
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his
For his molten images are
And there is no breath in them.
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his carved image,
for his cast images are a lie;
there is no breath in them.
International Standard Version
Everyone is stupid and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his own idols, for his images are false, and there is no life in them.
A Conservative Version
Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
Every man has become stupid and brutelike, without knowledge [of God];
Every goldsmith is shamed by the cast images he has made;
For his molten idols are a lie,
And there is no breath [of life] or spirit in them.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
Every man is become brutish, so as to have no knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
King James 2000
Every man is senseless by his knowledge; every goldsmith is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
All humankind turns out to be stupid, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by [the] divine image. For his cast image [is] a lie, and [there is] no breath in them.
Modern King James verseion
Every man is brutish in knowledge; every refiner is put to shame by idols. For his molded image is a lie, and no breath is in them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
By the reason of wisdom, all men are become fools. Confounded be all the casters of images: for the thing that they make is but deceit, and hath no breath.
NET Bible
All idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.
New Heart English Bible
Every man has become brutish without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
The Emphasized Bible
Every son of earth had become too brutish to know, - Every goldsmith, hath been put to shame, by a graven image, - For a falsehood, is his molten image Seeing there is no breath in them:
Webster
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.
World English Bible
Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Youngs Literal Translation
Brutish hath been every man by knowledge, Put to shame hath been every refiner by a graven image, For false is his molten image, And there is no breath in them.
Topics
Interlinear
Da`ath
Tsaraph
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 51:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
16 For a voice he gives a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he will bring up the clouds, from the extremity of the earth, making lightnings to the rain, and he will bring forth the wind from his treasures. 17 Every man was brutish from knowledge; every founder was ashamed from his carved image: for his founding is a falsehood, and no spirit in them. 18 They are vanity, the work of delusions: in the time of reviewing they shall perish.
Cross References
Jeremiah 10:14
Every man was brutish from knowledge: every founder was ashamed from his carved image; for his molten image a falsehood, and no spirit in them.
Habakkuk 2:18-19
What profited the carved image that he forming it carved it? the molten image and he teaching falsehood, that the former of his forming trusted upon it to make nothings being dumb?
Isaiah 44:18-20
They will not know, and they will not discern: he spread over their eyes from seeing; their heart from considering.
Psalm 14:2
Jehovah looked down from the heavens upon the sons of men, to see is there he understanding, seeking God.
Psalm 53:1-2
To the overseer upon the stringed instrument: instruction to David. The fool said in his heart, No God. They were corrupted; they made iniquity abominable: none doing good.
Psalm 92:5-6
How great were thy works, O Jehovah! thy thoughts were very deep.
Psalm 115:5
A mouth to them, and they shall not speak: eyes to them, and they will not see:
Psalm 115:8
They making them shall be as they; all that trusted in them.
Psalm 135:17-18
Ears to them, and they shall not hear; also there is no spirit in their mouth.
Jeremiah 50:2
Announce ye in the nations, and cause to be heard, and lift up a signal; cause to be heard, ye shall not hide: say, Babel was taken, Bel was ashamed, Merodach was broken; her images were ashamed, her blocks were broken.
Romans 1:20-23
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world, being understood by things made, are inspected, truly both his eternal power and divinity; so that they are inexcusable:
1 Corinthians 1:19-21
For it has been written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and put away the understanding of the intelligent.