Jeremias 51:17

17 For we will surely perform every word that shall proceed out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink-offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, and our kings and princes, in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we were filled with bread, and were well, and saw no evils.

Jeremias 51:17 Meaning and Commentary

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.] (See Gill on Jeremiah 10:14).

Jeremias 51:17 In-Context

15 Then all the men that knew that their wives burned incense, and all the women, a great multitude, and all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathura, answered Jeremias, saying,

16 the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee.

17 For we will surely perform every word that shall proceed out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink-offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, and our kings and princes, in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we were filled with bread, and were well, and saw no evils.

18 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, we have all been brought low, and have been consumed by sword and by famine.

19 And whereas we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured drink-offerings to her, did we make cakes to her, and pour drink-offerings to her, without our husbands?