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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Profiteth

And it cometh to pass, he is bowing himself in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons have smitten him with the sword, and they have escaped to the land of Ararat, and Esar-Haddon his son reigneth in his stead.

Removed backward -- utterly ashamed, Are those trusting in a graven image, Those saying to a molten image, 'Ye are our gods.'

Framers of a graven image are all of them emptiness, And their desirable things do not profit, And their own witnesses they are, They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.

They have been ashamed, And they have even blushed -- all of them, Together gone in confusion have those carving images.

Bowed down hath Bel, stooping is Nebo, Their idols have been for the beast and for cattle, Your burdens are loaded, a burden to the weary.

Saying to wood, 'My father art thou!' And to a stone, 'Thou hast brought me forth,' For they turned unto me the back and not the face, And in the time of their vexation, They say, 'Arise Thou, and save us.'

For the statutes of the peoples are vanity, For a tree from a forest hath one cut, Work of the hands of an artificer, with an axe,

'Declare ye among nations, and sound, And lift up an ensign, sound, do not hide, Say ye: Captured hath been Babylon, Put to shame hath been Bel, Broken hath been Merodach, Put to shame have been her grievous things, Broken have been her idols.

what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those is death.

A teacher

And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities is the tree itself.

Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.

Because the teraphim did speak iniquity, And the diviners have seen a falsehood, And dreams of the vanity they speak, With vanity they give comfort, Therefore they have journeyed as a flock, They are afflicted, for there is no shepherd.

and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of fowls, and of quadrupeds, and of reptiles.

him, whose presence is according to the working of the Adversary, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders,

And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,

And I saw another beast coming up out of the land, and it had two horns, like a lamb, and it was speaking as a dragon,

and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who did receive the mark of the beast, and those who did bow before his image; living they were cast -- the two -- to the lake of the fire, that is burning with brimstone;

That the

Their idols are silver and gold, work of man's hands,

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, Work of the hands of man.

And the strong hath been for tow, And his work for a spark, And burned have both of them together, And there is none quenching!

Cutting down to himself cedars, He taketh also a cypress, and an oak, And he strengtheneth it for himself Among the trees of a forest, He hath planted an ash, and the shower doth nourish it.

Dumb

ye have known that ye were nations, unto the dumb idols -- as ye were led -- being carried away;

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Nor do they mutter through their throat, Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.

The graven image poured out hath a artisan, And a refiner with gold spreadeth it over, And chains of silver he is refining.

Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out -- not profitable?

Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.