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

It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

"Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, 'You are our gods' will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.

Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don't see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.

Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols are on the animals, and on the livestock: the things that you carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary [animal].

who tell wood, 'You are my father;' and a stone, 'You have brought me out:' 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 one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

Declare among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don't conceal: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed; her images are disappointed, her idols are dismayed.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you 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.

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 oppressed, because there is no shepherd.

and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, 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 says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

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

The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

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.

The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them."

He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress 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

You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.

General references

Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.

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

Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.