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20 On that day of judgment they will abandon the gold and silver idols
    they made for themselves to worship.
They will leave their gods to the rodents and bats,

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22 Then you will destroy all your silver idols
    and your precious gold images.
You will throw them out like filthy rags,
    saying to them, “Good riddance!”

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I know the glorious day will come when each of you will throw away the gold idols and silver images your sinful hands have made.

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I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done. Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ

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“O Israel,[a] stay away from idols!
    I am the one who answers your prayers and cares for you.
I am like a tree that is always green;
    all your fruit comes from me.”

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Footnotes

  1. 14:8 Hebrew Ephraim, referring to the northern kingdom of Israel.

Some people pour out their silver and gold
    and hire a craftsman to make a god from it.
    Then they bow down and worship it!

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Babylon’s False Gods

46 Bel and Nebo, the gods of Babylon,
    bow as they are lowered to the ground.
They are being hauled away on ox carts.
    The poor beasts stagger under the weight.

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19 the stork, herons of all kinds, the hoopoe, and the bat.

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