Jeremiah 10:11

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“Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.””

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BSBPD

“Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Thus do ye say to them, The gods Who the heavens and earth have not made, They do perish from the earth, And from under these heavens.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Jeremiah 10:11 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 1 Samuel 5:4But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD, with his head and his hands broken off and lying on the threshold. Only the torso remained.
  2. Psalms 96:5For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.
  3. Isaiah 2:18and the idols will vanish completely.
  4. Isaiah 57:12I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.
  5. Jeremiah 10:15They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
  6. Jeremiah 43:12I will kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar will burn those temples and take their gods as captives. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his garment, and he will depart from there unscathed.
  7. Jeremiah 43:13He will demolish the sacred pillars of the temple of the sun in the land of Egypt, and he will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.’”
  8. Jeremiah 50:2“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’
  9. Jeremiah 51:18They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
  10. Lamentations 3:66You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.
  11. Ezekiel 30:13This is what the Lord GOD says: I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis. There will no longer be a prince in Egypt, and I will instill fear in that land.
  12. Zephaniah 2:11The LORD will be terrifying to them when He starves all the gods of the earth. Then the nations of every shore will bow in worship to Him, each in its own place.
  13. Zechariah 13:2And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.
  14. Revelation 20:2He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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