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

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Bible References

Profiteth

And it will be he worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him with the sword; and they escaped to the land of Ararat; and Esar-Haddon his son will reign in his stead.

They were turned back, they will be ashamed with shame, trusting in the carved image, saying to the molten image, Thou our God.

They forming a carved image all of them emptiness; and their delights shall not profit, and they are their witnesses; they will not see and they will not know, so that they shall be ashamed.

They were ashamed and also disgraced, all of them: together they went in shame the workmen of images.

Bel bent; Nebo bowed down; their images were for the beast and for the cattle: your gifts were carried; a lifting up to the weary.

Saying to the wood, Thou my father; and to the stone, Thou didst bring me forth: for they turned to me the back of the neck and not their face: and in the time of their evil they will say, Arise, and save us.

For the laws of the peoples, this vanity: for they cut down a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

Announce ye in the nations, and cause to be heard, and lift up a signal; cause to be heard, ye shall not hide: say, Babel was taken, Bel was ashamed, Merodach was broken; her images were ashamed, her blocks were broken.

Therefore what fruit had ye then of what ye are now ashamed? for the end of these, death.

A teacher

And in one they will become brutish, and they will be foolish: the tree itself a correction of vanities.

They watching the vanities of falsehood will forsake their kindness.

For the family gods spake vanity, and the diviners saw falsehood, and they will speak dreams of falsehood they will comfort in vain: for this, they removed as a flock, they were afflicted for there was no shepherd.

And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of flying things, and of creeping things, and of quadrupeds.

Whose arrival is according to the energy of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,

And the Spirit says expressly, that in later times some shall be removed from the faith, holding to deceitful spirits, and doctrines of evil spirits;

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

And the wild beast was seized, and with him the false prophet having done signs before him, with which he deceived them having received the stamp of the wild beast, and them worshipping his image. Living, were they two cast into the lake of fire burning with sulphur.

That the

Their images are silver and gold, the work of man's hands.

The images of the nation are silver and gold, the work of man's hands.

And the strong was for tow, and his work for a spark, and they two were burnt together, and none quenching.

To cut down for him cedars, and he will take the fir tree and the oak, and he will strengthen for himself among the trees of the forest: he planted an ash and the rain will cause to grow.

Dumb

Ye know that ye were the nations, to dumb idols, as ye were led, being carried away.

General references

They making them shall be as they; all that trusted in them.

The artificer cast the carved image, and the founder will spread it out with gold, and he smelted chains of silver.

Who formed a god and a carved molten image, profiting for nothing?

They watching the vanities of falsehood will forsake their kindness.