The Image of Gold and the Blazing Furnace

King Nebuchadnezzar made an image(A) of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide,[a] and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 3:1 That is, about 90 feet high and 9 feet wide or about 27 meters high and 2.7 meters wide

20 Do people make their own gods?
    Yes, but they are not gods!”(A)

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19 Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Come to life!’
    Or to lifeless stone, ‘Wake up!’(A)
Can it give guidance?
    It is covered with gold and silver;(B)
    there is no breath in it.”(C)

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They set up kings without my consent;
    they choose princes without my approval.(A)
With their silver and gold
    they make idols(B) for themselves
    to their own destruction.

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Some pour out gold from their bags
    and weigh out silver on the scales;
they hire a goldsmith(A) to make it into a god,
    and they bow down and worship it.(B)

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26 And you see and hear how this fellow Paul has convinced and led astray large numbers of people here in Ephesus(A) and in practically the whole province of Asia.(B) He says that gods made by human hands are no gods at all.(C)

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29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill.(A)

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19 As for an idol,(A) a metalworker casts it,
    and a goldsmith(B) overlays it with gold(C)
    and fashions silver chains for it.
20 A person too poor to present such an offering
    selects wood(D) that will not rot;
they look for a skilled worker
    to set up an idol(E) that will not topple.(F)

21 Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?(G)
Has it not been told(H) you from the beginning?(I)
    Have you not understood(J) since the earth was founded?(K)
22 He sits enthroned(L) above the circle of the earth,
    and its people are like grasshoppers.(M)
He stretches out the heavens(N) like a canopy,(O)
    and spreads them out like a tent(P) to live in.(Q)
23 He brings princes(R) to naught
    and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.(S)
24 No sooner are they planted,
    no sooner are they sown,
    no sooner do they take root(T) in the ground,
than he blows(U) on them and they wither,(V)
    and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.(W)

25 “To whom will you compare me?(X)
    Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.(Y)
26 Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:(Z)
    Who created(AA) all these?
He who brings out the starry host(AB) one by one
    and calls forth each of them by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,(AC)
    not one of them is missing.(AD)

27 Why do you complain, Jacob?
    Why do you say, Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord;
    my cause is disregarded by my God”?(AE)
28 Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?(AF)
The Lord is the everlasting(AG) God,
    the Creator(AH) of the ends of the earth.(AI)
He will not grow tired or weary,(AJ)
    and his understanding no one can fathom.(AK)
29 He gives strength(AL) to the weary(AM)
    and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
    and young men(AN) stumble and fall;(AO)
31 but those who hope(AP) in the Lord
    will renew their strength.(AQ)
They will soar on wings like eagles;(AR)
    they will run and not grow weary,
    they will walk and not be faint.(AS)

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20 In that day(A) people will throw away
    to the moles and bats(B)
their idols of silver and idols of gold,(C)
    which they made to worship.(D)

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15 The idols of the nations(A) are silver and gold,
    made by human hands.(B)

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But their idols are silver and gold,(A)
    made by human hands.(B)
They have mouths, but cannot speak,(C)
    eyes, but cannot see.
They have ears, but cannot hear,
    noses, but cannot smell.
They have hands, but cannot feel,
    feet, but cannot walk,
    nor can they utter a sound with their throats.
Those who make them will be like them,
    and so will all who trust in them.

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28 After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves.(A) He said to the people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”(B)

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23 Instead, you have set yourself up against(A) the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives(B) and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand.(C) But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life(D) and all your ways.(E)

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