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, who trust in graven images, who say to molten images, Ye are our gods.

Those who 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 who are makers of idols.

Bel bows down, Nebo stoops, 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 block of wood, Thou are my father, and to a stone, Thou have brought me forth. For they have turned their back to 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 [a man] cuts 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 therefore did ye have then, of which things 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 block of wood.

Those who 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 into an image like corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed things, and creeping things.

Whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and marvels of deceit,

But the Spirit says expressly that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,

And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and it had two horns similar to a lamb, and it spoke like a dragon.

And the beast was taken, and the FALSE prophet with it who did the signs in its sight by which he led astray those who received the mark of the beast and those who worship its image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire

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 flax, and his work as a spark. And they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

He hews down cedars for him, and takes the holm tree and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.

Dumb

Ye know that, while Gentiles, ye were being carried away to the voiceless idols, as ye were led.

General references

Those who make them shall be like them. Yea, everyone who trusts in them.

The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.

Who has fashioned a god, or molded an image that is profitable for nothing?

Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.