Jeremiah 51:17
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.
Cross-reference
Jeremiah 50:2 also describes Babylon's idols being put to shame, directly echoing the same judgment.
Jeremiah 10:14 repeats this line verbatim — an identical condemnation of idol-makers' ignorance.
Jeremiah 10:8 also calls idol-makers stupid and foolish, reinforcing the charge that those who trust in idols are senseless.
In Jeremiah 2:5, Israel went after worthlessness and became worthless — the same indictment of idolatry that Jeremiah 51:17 applies to Babylon's idols.
Jeremiah 1:16 condemns worshiping the work of one's own hands, linking idolatry to God's judgment — a broader covenantal perspective.
Psalm 115:5 describes idols with mouths but no speech — matching Jeremiah's 'no breath in them' about lifeless idols.
Romans 1:20-23 describes people becoming fools and exchanging God's glory for images — mirroring Jeremiah's indictment of idolatrous ignorance.
Habakkuk 2:19 pronounces woe on those who worship silent wooden idols with no breath, a direct parallel.
Habakkuk 2:18 asks what profit an idol is when its maker trusts it, reinforcing the futility of idol-making.
Isaiah 44:18-20 describes idolaters as blind and without understanding — directly paralleling Jeremiah's 'brutish and without knowledge'.
Psalm 135:18 repeats that idol makers become like their idols — same connection as Psalm 115:8, reinforcing Jeremiah's critique.
Psalm 135:17 depicts idols with mouths that cannot speak, mirroring the 'no breath' lifelessness stated.
Psalm 115:8 says idol makers become like their lifeless idols — consistent with Jeremiah's depiction of brutish idolaters.
Psalm 92:6 explicitly states that a brutish man knows not — directly echoing Jeremiah's 'every man is brutish and without knowledge'.
Isaiah 45:20 calls idol-worshippers 'without knowledge' and prays to gods that cannot save, echoing the ignorance.
Isaiah 44:11 says idol-makers will be put to shame together, directly paralleling the goldsmith's shame.
Isaiah 41:24 declares idols are nothing and their makers an abomination, matching the condemnation.
1 Corinthians 8:4 echoes the same truth: an idol has no real existence, just as Jeremiah says idols have no breath.
Revelation 9:20 describes idols that cannot see, hear, or walk — a fuller description of the lifeless idols Jeremiah says have no breath.
In Revelation 13:15, the beast's image is given breath to speak — a direct inversion of Jeremiah's claim that idols have no breath.