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 worshiping 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 Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.

They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your loads were heavy; they were a burden to the weary beast.

Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast 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 people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.

Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

What fruit had ye then in those things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

A teacher

But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled because there was no shepherd.

And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping animals.

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders,

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons;

And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

That the

Their idols are silver and gold; the work of men's hands.

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

And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

He heweth down cedars for himself, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.

Dumb

Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

General references

They that make them are like them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

Who hath formed a god, or cast a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.