Isaiah 2:20
At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live,
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- Isa 30:22 : 22 You will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them,“Get out!”
- Isa 31:7 : 7 For at that time everyone will get rid of the silver and gold idols your hands sinfully made.
- Lev 11:19 : 19 the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
- Isa 46:1 : 1 The Lord Carries His People Bel kneels down, Nebo bends low. Their images weigh down animals and beasts. Your heavy images are burdensome to tired animals.
- Isa 46:6 : 6 Those who empty out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scale hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god. They then bow down and worship it.
- Hos 14:8 : 8 O Ephraim, I do not want to have anything to do with idols anymore! I will answer him and care for him. I am like a luxuriant cypress tree; your fruitfulness comes from me!
- Phil 3:7-8 : 7 But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ. 8 More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things– indeed, I regard them as dung!– that I may gain Christ,
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- Isa 2:18-192 verses84%
18The worthless idols will be completely eliminated.
19They will go into caves in the rocky cliffs and into holes in the ground, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the LORD and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.
- Isa 31:6-72 verses81%
6You Israelites! Return to the one against whom you have so blatantly rebelled!
7For at that time everyone will get rid of the silver and gold idols your hands sinfully made.
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21so they themselves can go into the crevices of the rocky cliffs and the openings under the rocky overhangs, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the LORD and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.
- Ps 135:15-162 verses75%
15The nations’ idols are made of silver and gold, they are man-made.
16They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see,
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4Their idols are made of silver and gold– they are man-made.
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8Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned.
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22You will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them,“Get out!”
- Ezek 7:19-202 verses72%
19They will discard their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated like filth. Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the LORD’s fury. They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs because their wealth was the obstacle leading to their iniquity.
20They rendered the beauty of his ornaments into pride, and with it they made their abominable images– their detestable idols. Therefore I will render it filthy to them.
- Isa 17:7-93 verses72%
7At that time men will trust in their Creator; they will depend on the Holy One of Israel.
8They will no longer trust in the altars their hands made, or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made.
9At that time their fortified cities will be like the abandoned summits of the Amorites, which they abandoned because of the Israelites; there will be desolation.
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6so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.
- Hab 2:18-192 verses71%
18What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things?
19Woe to the one who says to wood,‘Wake up!’– he who says to speechless stone,‘Awake!’ Can it give reliable guidance? It is overlaid with gold and silver; it has no life’s breath inside it.
- Isa 40:19-202 verses71%
19A craftsman casts an idol; a metalsmith overlays it with gold and forges silver chains for it.
20To make a contribution one selects wood that will not rot; he then seeks a skilled craftsman to make an idol that will not fall over.
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2They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon and the stars. These are things they adored and served, things to which they paid allegiance, from which they sought guidance, and worshiped. The bones of these people will never be regathered and reburied. They will be like manure used to fertilize the ground.
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17Those who trust in idols will turn back and be utterly humiliated, those who say to metal images,‘You are our gods.’”
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6Those who empty out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scale hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god. They then bow down and worship it.
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11The LORD will terrify them, for he will weaken all the gods of the earth. All the distant nations will worship the LORD in their own lands.
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19They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.
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18They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.
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18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s angry judgment. The whole earth will be consumed by his fiery wrath. Indeed, he will bring terrifying destruction on all who live on the earth.”
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2Even now they persist in sin! They make metal images for themselves, idols that they skillfully fashion from their own silver; all of them are nothing but the work of craftsmen! There is a saying about them:“Those who sacrifice to the calf idol are calf kissers!”
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20The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood– idols that cannot see or hear or walk about.
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7ז(Zayin) The Lord rejected his altar and abhorred his temple. He handed over to the enemy her palace walls; the enemy shouted in the LORD’s temple as if it were a feast day.
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28There you will worship gods made by human hands– wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.
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5You should make images of the sores and images of the mice that are destroying the land. You should honor the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his grip on you, your gods, and your land.
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17You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.)
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20The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the wild beasts, all the things that creep on the ground, and all people who live on the face of the earth will shake at my presence. The mountains will topple, the cliffs will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.
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10Go up into the rocky cliffs, hide in the ground. Get away from the dreadful judgment of the LORD, from his royal splendor!
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17With the rest of it he makes a god, his idol; he bows down to it and worships it. He prays to it, saying,‘Rescue me, for you are my god!’
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20Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all.”
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17All idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.
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30I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.
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8The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!
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18But I will certainly hide myself at that time because of all the wickedness they will have done by turning to other gods.
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2And also on that day,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“I will remove the names of the idols from the land and they will never again be remembered. Moreover, I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.
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13I will remove your idols and sacred pillars from your midst; you will no longer worship what your own hands made.
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15They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.
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8Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.
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9All who form idols are nothing; the things in which they delight are worthless. Their witnesses cannot see; they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.
10Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?