Habakkuk 2:18

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Summary

What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

Profiteth

A teacher

That the

Dumb

1 Corinthians 12:2

General references

Bible References

Profiteth

And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.

They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly put to shame, that trust in graven images, that say unto molten images, Ye are our gods.

They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses see not, nor know: that they may be put to shame.

They shall be put to shame, yea, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together that are makers of idols.

Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: the things that ye carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary beast .

who say to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

Declare ye among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed; her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.

What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

A teacher

But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.

For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams, they comfort in vain: therefore they go their way like sheep, they are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.

and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.

even he , whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like unto lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone:

That the

Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.

And the strong shall be as tow, and his work as a spark; and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the holm-tree and the oak, and strengtheneth for himself one among the trees of the forest: he planteth a fir-tree, and the rain doth nourish it.

Dumb

Ye know that when ye were Gentiles ye were led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye might led.

General references

They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them.

The image, a workman hath cast it , and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it'silver chains.

Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?

They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.