Jeremiah 18:15

For This continues the thought of the 13th v., Jeremiah 18:14 being parenthetic.

vanity lit. unreality, meaning idols, but a different word from that used in Jeremiah 2:5, where see notes. Here the sense is materially or morally unsubstantial or groundless. See Dr. Parallel Psalter, p. 464.

they have caused The pronoun must refer to the idols (2 Chronicles 28:23); but it is better, as the LXX's rendering suggests, to translate have stumbled, thus retaining "the people" as the subject.

in the ancient paths Cp. ch. Jeremiah 6:16.

not cast up not raised above the inequalities and obstructions of the adjoining fields.