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They say to a wooden idol, 'You are my father.' They say to a stone image, 'You gave birth to me.' Yes, they have turned away from me instead of turning to me. Yet when they are in trouble, they say, 'Come and save us!'
“Why should I [overlook these offenses and] forgive you?
Your children have abandoned (rejected) Me
And sworn [their oaths] by those who are not gods.
When I had fed them until they were full [and bound them to Me by a promise],
They committed [spiritual] adultery,
Assembling in troops at the houses of prostitutes (idols).
For the religion of these people is worthless. They cut down a tree in the forest, and a craftsman makes it into an idol with his tools.
“They adorn the idol with silver and with gold;
They fasten it with hammers and nails
So that it will not fall apart.
The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!
All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.
Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
For you will no longer remember the oracle of the Lord, because every man’s own word will become the oracle, [for as they mockingly call all prophecies oracles, whether good or bad, so will it prove to be to them; God will take them at their own word]; and you have perverted the words [not of a lifeless idol, but] of the living God, the Lord of hosts, our God.
But they put their detestable things (idols) in the house which is called by My
“For because you have trusted in your works [your hand-made idols] and in your treasures [instead of in God],
Even you yourself will be captured;
And
Together with his priests and his princes.
“As for Your terror,
The pride and arrogance of your heart have deceived you,
O you who live in the clefts of the rock (Sela also called
Who hold and occupy the height of the hill.
Though you make your nest as high as the eagle’s,
I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.
All idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.
Related Words
- Idol (100 instances in 12 translations)
- Idol's (1 instance in 10 translations)
- Idol-house (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Idol-sacrifices (3 instances in 1 translation)
- Idol-worship (2 instances in 1 translation)
- Idol-worshiping (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Idol-worshipper (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Idolater (2 instances in 11 translations)
- Idolaters (11 instances in 12 translations)
- Idolator (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Idolatress (2 instances in 1 translation)
- Idolatresses (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Idolatries (5 instances in 10 translations)
- Idolatrous (60 instances in 11 translations)
- Idolatry (53 instances in 12 translations)
- Idolize (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Idols (254 instances in 12 translations)
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- Jezebel
- Shrines
- Stones
- Worship At Trees
- Astrology
- Bowing
- Calves
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- Altars, Pagan
- Building Altars
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- Idolatry Consists Of
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- Craftsmanship
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- Avoid Immorality
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