Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.
New American Standard Bible
Nor will he look to that which his
Even the
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
They will not look to the altars
International Standard Version
They will not look upon the altars, the products that their own fingers have made, and they will have no regard for Asherah poles or incense altars.
A Conservative Version
And they shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands, nor shall they have respect for that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.
American Standard Version
And they shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.
Amplified
And he will not have regard for the [idolatrous] altars, the work of his hands,
Nor will he look to that which his fingers have made,
Neither the Asherim (symbols of the goddess Asherah) nor the incense altars.
Darby Translation
And he will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, nor have regard to what his fingers have made, neither the Asherahs nor the sun-images.
Julia Smith Translation
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and what his fingers made he shall not see, and the statues and the images.
King James 2000
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall he respect that which his fingers have made, either the idol poles, or the incense altars.
Lexham Expanded Bible
it will not look to the altars, the work of its hands, and it will not see what its fingers made and the poles of Asherah worship and the incense altars.
Modern King James verseion
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, nor respect that which his fingers have made, either the Asherahs or the images.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And shall not turn to the altars that are the work of his own hands, neither shall he look upon groves and images, which his fingers have wrought.
NET Bible
They will no longer trust in the altars their hands made, or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made.
New Heart English Bible
They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the incense altars.
The Emphasized Bible
And he shall not look unto the altars the work of his own hands, - Nor to what his own fingers have made, shall his eye be turned, Whether Sacred Stems or Sun-pillars.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the incense altars.
Youngs Literal Translation
And he looketh not unto the altars. The work of his own hands, And that which his own fingers made He seeth not -- the shrines and the images.
Themes
Groves » Forbidden to be established
Groves » God promised to wean israel from
Idolatry » Prophecies relating to
false Worship » Idolatry » Prophecies concerning the overthrow of
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 17:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Judgment Against Israel
7 In that day a man's heart will be turned to his Maker, and his eyes to the Holy One of Israel. 8 He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made. 9 In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.
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Cross References
Isaiah 27:9
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.
Isaiah 30:22
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!
Isaiah 2:8
Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made.
Micah 5:13-14
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.
Exodus 34:13
But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down:
2 Chronicles 14:5
And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.
2 Chronicles 34:4
He had the altars of the Baals broken down, while he himself was present; and the sun-images which were placed on high over them he had cut down; and the pillars of wood and the metal images he had broken up and crushed to dust, dropping the dust over the resting-places of the dead who had made offerings to them.
2 Chronicles 34:6-7
And in all the towns of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon as far as Naphtali, he made waste their houses round about.
Isaiah 1:29
For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.
Isaiah 2:18-21
And the images will never be seen again.
Isaiah 31:6-7
Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.
Isaiah 44:15
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.
Isaiah 44:19-20
And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?
Ezekiel 36:25
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.
Hosea 8:4-6
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.
Hosea 10:1-2
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.
Hosea 13:1-2
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.
Hosea 14:8
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.
Zephaniah 1:3
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.
Zechariah 13:2
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.