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Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
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and the idols will totally disappear.
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In that day people will throw away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and idols of gold, which they made to worship.
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As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols, kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria—
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shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images as I dealt with Samaria and her idols?’”
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A Prophecy Against Egypt
A prophecy against Egypt: See, the Lord rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before him, and the hearts of the Egyptians melt with fear.
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The Egyptians will lose heart, and I will bring their plans to nothing; they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, the mediums and the spiritists.
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Then you will desecrate your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, “Away with you!”
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For in that day every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold your sinful hands have made.
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As for an idol, a metalworker casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.
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A person too poor to present such an offering selects wood that will not rot; they look for a skilled worker to set up an idol that will not topple.
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The metalworker encourages the goldsmith, and the one who smooths with the hammer spurs on the one who strikes the anvil. One says of the welding, “It is good.” The other nails down the idol so it will not topple.
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“Tell us, you idols, what is going to happen. Tell us what the former things were, so that we may consider them and know their final outcome. Or declare to us the things to come,
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“I am the Lord; that is my name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.
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But those who trust in idols, who say to images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back in utter shame.
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The Lord, Not Idols
“This is what the Lord says— Israel’s King and Redeemer, the Lord Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God.
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All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame.
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Who shapes a god and casts an idol, which can profit nothing?
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The blacksmith takes a tool and works with it in the coals; he shapes an idol with hammers, he forges it with the might of his arm. He gets hungry and loses his strength; he drinks no water and grows faint.
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It is used as fuel for burning; some of it he takes and warms himself, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. But he also fashions a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.
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From the rest he makes a god, his idol; he bows down to it and worships. He prays to it and says, “Save me! You are my god!”
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All the makers of idols will be put to shame and disgraced; they will go off into disgrace together.
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“Gather together and come; assemble, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood, who pray to gods that cannot save.
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Gods of Babylon
Bel bows down, Nebo stoops low; their idols are borne by beasts of burden. The images that are carried about are burdensome, a burden for the weary.
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“Come together, all of you, and listen: Which of the idols has foretold these things? The Lord’s chosen ally will carry out his purpose against Babylon; his arm will be against the Babylonians.
