Isaiah 2:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places;

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  • Isa 30:22 : 22 And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!
  • Isa 31:7 : 7 For in that day they will all give up their images of silver and of gold, the sin which they made for themselves.
  • Lev 11:19 : 19 The stork and the heron, and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.
  • Isa 46:1 : 1 Bel is bent down, Nebo is falling; their images are on the beasts and on the cattle: the things which you took about have become a weight to the tired beast.
  • Isa 46:6 : 6 As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.
  • Hos 14:8 : 8 They will come back and have rest in his shade; their life will be made new like the grain, and they will put out flowers like the vine; his name will be like the wine of Lebanon.
  • Phil 3:7-8 : 7 But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ. 8 Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,

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  • Isa 2:18-19
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    18 And the images will never be seen again.

    19 And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

  • Isa 31:6-7
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    6 Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.

    7 For in that day they will all give up their images of silver and of gold, the sin which they made for themselves.

  • 21 To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

  • Ps 135:15-16
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    15 The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

    16 They have mouths, but no voice, they have eyes, but they do not see;

  • 4 Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • 8 Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made.

  • 22 And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!

  • Ezek 7:19-20
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    19 They will put out their silver into the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they will not get their desire or have food for their need: because it has been the cause of their falling into sin.

    20 As for their beautiful ornament, they had put it on high, and had made the images of their disgusting and hated things in it: for this cause I have made it an unclean thing to them.

  • Isa 17:7-9
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    7 In that day a man's heart will be turned to his Maker, and his eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

    8 He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.

    9 In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.

  • 6 They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.

  • Hab 2:18-19
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    18 What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice?

    19 A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it.

  • Isa 40:19-20
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    19 The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.

    20 The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved.

  • 2 And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.

  • 17 They will be turned back and be greatly shamed who put their hope in pictured images, who say to metal images, You are our gods.

  • 6 As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.

  • 11 The Lord will let himself be seen by them: for he will make all the gods of the earth feeble; and men will go down before him in worship, everyone from his place, even all the sea-lands of the nations.

  • 19 And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.

  • 18 And have given their gods to the fire; for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.

  • 18 Even their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the Lord's wrath; but all the land will be burned up in the fire of his bitter wrath: for he will put an end, even suddenly, to all who are living in the land.

  • 2 And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.

  • 20 And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:

  • 7 The Lord has given up his altar and has been turned in hate from his holy place; he has given up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses: their voices have been loud in the house of the Lord as in the day of a holy meeting.

  • 28 There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.

  • 18 Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.

  • 5 So make images of the growths caused by your disease and of the mice which are damaging your land; and give glory to the God of Israel: it may be that the weight of his hand will be lifted from you and from your gods and from your land.

  • 17 And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:)

  • 20 So that the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven and the beasts of the field and everything moving on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth, will be shaking before me, and the mountains will be overturned and the high places will come down, and every wall will come falling down to the earth.

  • 10 Go into a hole in the rock, covering yourselves with dust, in fear of the Lord, before the glory of his power.

  • 17 And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his pictured image: he goes down on his face before it, giving worship to it, and making prayer to it, saying, Be my saviour; for you are my god.

  • 20 Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?

  • Jer 51:17-18
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    17 Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

    18 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

  • 30 And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.

  • 8 But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

  • 18 Truly, my face will be turned away from them in that day, because of all the evil they have done in going after other gods.

  • 2 And it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that I will have the names of the images cut off out of the land, and there will be no more memory of them: and I will send all the prophets and the unclean spirit away from the land.

  • 13 I will have your Asherahs pulled up from among you: and I will send destruction on your images.

  • 17 See, I am driving the Medes against them, who put no value on silver and have no pleasure in gold.

  • 15 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

  • 8 Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.

  • Isa 44:9-10
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    9 Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.

    10 Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.