Jeremiah 51:17 Cross References

Jeremiah 51:17

17: Compared to him, all people are foolish and have no knowledge at all! They make idols, but the idols will disgrace their makers, for they are frauds. They have no life or power in them.

Jeremiah 10:14

  1. Compared to him, all people are foolish and have no knowledge at all! They make idols, but the idols will disgrace their makers, for they are frauds. They have no life or power in them.

Habakkuk 2:18

  1. "What have you gained by worshiping all your man-made idols? How foolish to trust in something made by your own hands! What fools you are to believe such lies!
  2. How terrible it will be for you who beg lifeless wooden idols to save you. You ask speechless stone images to tell you what to do. Can an idol speak for God? They may be overlaid with gold and silver, but they are lifeless inside.

Isaiah 44:18

  1. Such stupidity and ignorance! Their eyes are closed, and they cannot see. Their minds are shut, and they cannot think.
  2. The person who made the idol never stops to reflect, "Why, it's just a block of wood! I burned half of it for heat and used it to bake my bread and roast my meat. How can the rest of it be a god? Should I bow down to worship a chunk of wood?"
  3. The poor, deluded fool feeds on ashes. He is trusting something that can give him no help at all. Yet he cannot bring himself to ask, "Is this thing, this idol that I'm holding in my hand, a lie?"

Psalms 14:2

  1. The LORD looks down from heaven on the entire human race; he looks to see if there is even one with real understanding, one who seeks for God.

Jeremiah 50:2

  1. This is what the LORD says: "Tell the whole world, and keep nothing back! Raise a signal flag so everyone will know that Babylon will fall! Her images and idols will be shattered. Her gods Bel and Marduk will be utterly disgraced.

Romans 1:20

  1. From the time the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky and all that God made. They can clearly see his invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse whatsoever for not knowing God.
  2. Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn't worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. The result was that their minds became dark and confused.
  3. Claiming to be wise, they became utter fools instead.
  4. And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people, or birds and animals and snakes.

Psalms 135:17

  1. They cannot hear with their ears or smell with their noses.
  2. And those who make them are just like them, as are all who trust in them.

Psalms 115:5

  1. They cannot talk, though they have mouths, or see, though they have eyes!

Psalms 53:1

  1. Only fools say in their hearts, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and their actions are evil; no one does good!
  2. God looks down from heaven on the entire human race; he looks to see if there is even one with real understanding, one who seeks for God.

Psalms 115:8

  1. And those who make them are just like them, as are all who trust in them.

1 Corinthians 1:19

  1. As the Scriptures say, "I will destroy human wisdom and discard their most brilliant ideas."
  2. So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world's brilliant debaters? God has made them all look foolish and has shown their wisdom to be useless nonsense.
  3. Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never find him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save all who believe.

Psalms 92:5

  1. O LORD, what great miracles you do! And how deep are your thoughts.
  2. Only an ignorant person would not know this! Only a fool would not understand it.
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