Isaiah 17:8

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Summary

And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

He shall

The work

Micah 5:13

Bible References

He shall

For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

And the images will never be seen again.

So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.

And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!

And in all the towns of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon as far as Naphtali, he made waste their houses round about.

And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.

I will take away man and beast; I will take away the birds of the heaven and the fishes of the sea; causing the downfall of the evil-doers, and cutting man off from the face of the earth, says the Lord.

And it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that I will have the names of the images cut off out of the land, and there will be no more memory of them: and I will send all the prophets and the unclean spirit away from the land.

The work

Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made.

Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.

Then it will be used to make a fire, so that a man may get warm; he has the oven heated with it and makes bread: he makes a god with it, to which he gives worship: he makes a pictured image out of it, and goes down on his face before it.

They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.

Israel is a branching vine, full of fruit; as his fruit is increased, so the number of his altars is increased; as the land is fair, so they have made fair pillars.

When the words of my law came from Ephraim, he was lifted up in Israel; but when he did evil through the Baal, death overtook him.

And I will have your images and your pillars cut off from you; and you will no longer give worship to the work of your hands.