Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they shall perish.
New American Standard Bible
In the time of their punishment they will perish.
King James Version
They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Holman Bible
At the time of their punishment they will be destroyed.
International Standard Version
They're worthless, a work of mockery, and when the time of punishment comes, they'll perish.
American Standard Version
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Amplified
They are worthless (empty, false, futile), a work of delusion and worthy of derision;
In the time of their inspection and punishment they will perish.
Bible in Basic English
They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
Darby Translation
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Julia Smith Translation
They are vanity, the work of delusions: in the time of reviewing they shall perish.
King James 2000
They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their judgment they shall perish.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They [are] worthless, a work of mockery. At the time of their punishment, they will perish.
Modern King James verseion
They are vanity, the work of errors; in the time of their judgment they shall perish.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Vain is it; and worthy to be laughed at. And in the time of visitation it shall perish.
NET Bible
They are worthless, objects to be ridiculed. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.
New Heart English Bible
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
The Emphasized Bible
Vanity, they are, A handiwork of mockeries, - In the time of their visitation, shall they perish.
Webster
They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
World English Bible
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Youngs Literal Translation
Vanity are they -- work of errors, In the time of their inspection they perish.
Interlinear
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 51:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
17 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. 18 They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they shall perish. 19 The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the former of all things, and [Israel] is the tribe of his inheritance. LORD of hosts is his name.
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 12:12
For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments. I am LORD.
Isaiah 19:1
The burden of Egypt. Behold, LORD rides upon a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. And the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
Isaiah 46:1
Bel bows down, Nebo stoops, their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle. The things that ye carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary [beast].
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are together brutish and foolish, the instruction of idols! It is but a block of wood.
Jeremiah 10:15
They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Jeremiah 18:15
For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to FALSE [gods]. And they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up,
Jeremiah 43:12-13
And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them, and carry them away captive. And he shall array himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd puts on his garment, and he shall go forth from there
Jeremiah 46:25
LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says, Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings, even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him.
Jeremiah 48:7
For, because thou have trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou also shall be taken. And Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his rulers together.
Jeremiah 50:2
Declare ye among the nations and publish, and set up a standard, publish, and conceal not. Say, Babylon is taken. Bel is put to shame. Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame; her idols are dismayed.
Jonah 2:8
Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Zephaniah 2:11
LORD will be terrible to them, for he will famish all the gods of the earth. And men shall worship him, everyone from his place, even all the isles of the nations.
Acts 14:15
and saying, Men, why are ye doing these things? We also are men of like nature with you, proclaiming good-news to you, to turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all the thi