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They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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Idols: Worthless and Deceptive
Commentators agree that idols are described as 'vanity'—meaning they are empty, worthless, and a source of falsehood. They are called a 'work of errors' or a 'work of mockery,' highlighting that they are not only foolish but actively deceive those who worship them, standing in stark contrast to the living God.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Rather, They are vanity, a work of mockery, deserving only ridicule and contempt.
19th Century
Anglican
The work of errors. —Better, a work of mockery, i.e., worthy of that and of that only, the word being apparently…
Baptist
Every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, and the wo…
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16th Century
Protestant
He confirms the same thing. What he called before falsehood, שקר, shikor, he now calls vanity, הבל, ebel. They are vanity,
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
They are vanity. They are the fruit of the vain imagination of men; to worship them shows the vanity of the human mind; a…
The prophet shows the glory of Israel's God, and exposes the foolishness of idolaters. Charms and other attempts to obtain supernatural help, or to…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, he infers the destruction of false worship.
He speaks of the shame of idolatry regarding its foolishness: the idol maker
