Jeremiah 51:15-19
The Creator of the universe is the only true God, while idols are powerless fabrications of human hands.
15 “He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.
16 When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
17 “Every man has become brutish without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed 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 will perish.
19 The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the former of all things; including the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.
The Creator of the universe is the only true God, while idols are powerless fabrications of human hands.
To contrast the living Creator who formed the world with wisdom and power against the powerless idols worshiped by the nations, declaring that the LORD alone is the God of Israel.
Jeremiah 51:15–19 interrupts the military imagery of Babylon’s downfall with a theological declaration contrasting the living God with the powerless idols of the nations.
Babylon Sunk: The LORD’s Vengeance, Israel’s Deliverance, and the Stone Cast into the Euphrates
The LORD will make Babylon sink under the weight of her violence, idolatry, pride, and bloodshed, while calling his people to flee, remember Zion, and trust his irreversible word.