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

One day, as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. They ran away to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.

Those who trust in idols will turn back and be utterly humiliated, those who say to metal images, 'You are our gods.'"

All 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.

They will all be ashamed and embarrassed; those who fashion idols will all be humiliated.

Bel kneels down, Nebo bends low. Their images weigh down animals and beasts. Your heavy images are burdensome to tired animals.

They say to a wooden idol, 'You are my father.' They say to a stone image, 'You gave birth to me.' Yes, they have turned away from me instead of turning to me. Yet when they are in trouble, they say, 'Come and save us!'

For the religion of these people is worthless. They cut down a tree in the forest, and a craftsman makes it into an idol with his tools.

"Announce the news among the nations! Proclaim it! Signal for people to pay attention! Declare the news! Do not hide it! Say: 'Babylon will be captured. Bel will be put to shame. Marduk will be dismayed. Babylon's idols will be put to shame. Her disgusting images will be dismayed.

So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

A teacher

The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!

Those who worship worthless idols forfeit the mercy that could be theirs.

For the household gods have spoken wickedness, the soothsayers have seen a lie, and as for the dreamers, they have disclosed emptiness and give comfort in vain. Therefore the people set out like sheep and become scattered because they have no shepherd.

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

The arrival of the lawless one will be by Satan's working with all kinds of miracles and signs and false wonders,

Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings,

Then I saw another beast coming up from the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but was speaking like a dragon.

Now the beast was seized, and along with him the false prophet who had performed the signs on his behalf -- signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur.

That the

Their idols are made of silver and gold -- they are man-made.

The nations' idols are made of silver and gold, they are man-made.

The powerful will be like a thread of yarn, their deeds like a spark; both will burn together, and no one will put out the fire.

He cuts down cedars and acquires a cypress or an oak. He gets trees from the forest; he plants a cedar and the rain makes it grow.

Dumb

You know that when you were pagans you were often led astray by speechless idols, however you were led.

General references

Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.

A craftsman casts an idol; a metalsmith overlays it with gold and forges silver chains for it.

Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?

Those who worship worthless idols forfeit the mercy that could be theirs.