Isaiah 44:9
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The Folly of Idolatry
9 (A)All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.
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Jeremiah 10:14-15
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14 (A)Every man is stupid and without knowledge;
(B)every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,
for his images are false,
(C)and there is no breath in them.
15 They are worthless, a work of delusion;
at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
Isaiah 41:24
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24 Behold, (A)you are nothing,
and your work is less than nothing;
an abomination is he who chooses you.
Habakkuk 2:18-20
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18 (A)“What profit is an idol
when its maker has shaped it,
a metal image, (B)a teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in his own creation
when he makes (C)speechless idols!
19 (D)Woe to him (E)who says to a wooden thing, Awake;
to a silent stone, Arise!
Can this teach?
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
and (F)there is no breath at all in it.
20 But (G)the Lord is in his holy temple;
(H)let all the earth keep silence before him.”
Isaiah 41:29
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29 (A)Behold, they are all a delusion;
their works are nothing;
their metal images are empty wind.
Psalm 97:7
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7 All worshipers of images are (A)put to shame,
who make their boast in (B)worthless idols;
(C)worship him, all you gods!
Ephesians 5:8
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8 for (A)at one time you were (B)darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. (C)Walk as children of light
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1 Corinthians 8:4
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4 Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that (A)“an idol has no real existence,” and that (B)“there is no God but one.”
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Romans 1:22
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22 (A)Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
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Hosea 8:4-6
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4 (A)They made kings, (B)but not through me.
They set up princes, but I knew it not.
With their silver and gold they made idols
for their own destruction.
5 (C)I have[a] spurned your calf, O Samaria.
My anger burns against them.
(D)How long will they be incapable of innocence?
6 For it is from Israel;
a craftsman made it;
it is not God.
(E)The calf of Samaria
(F)shall be broken to pieces.[b]
Daniel 11:38
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38 He shall honor the god of fortresses instead of these. A god whom his fathers did not know he shall honor (A)with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts.
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Daniel 5:23
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23 but you have lifted up yourself against (A)the Lord of heaven. And (B)the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. (C)And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, (D)but the God in whose hand is your breath, and (E)whose are all your ways, (F)you have not honored.
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Jeremiah 16:19-20
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19 (A)O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
(B)my refuge in the day of trouble,
(C)to you shall the nations come
from the ends of the earth and say:
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies,
(D)worthless things in which there is no profit.
20 Can man make for himself (E)gods?
Such are not gods!”
Jeremiah 14:22
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22 Are there any among (A)the false gods of the nations (B)that can bring rain?
Or can the heavens give showers?
Are you not he, O Lord our God?
We set our hope on you,
(C)for you do all these things.
Jeremiah 10:3-8
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3 (A)for the customs of the peoples are vanity.[a]
(B)A tree from the forest is cut down
and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
4 (C)They decorate it with silver and gold;
(D)they fasten it with hammer and nails
so that it cannot move.
5 Their idols[b] are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
and (E)they cannot speak;
(F)they have to be carried,
for they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
(G)for they cannot do evil,
neither is it in them to do good.”
6 (H)There is none like you, O Lord;
you are great, and your name is great in might.
7 (I)Who would not fear you, O King of the nations?
For this is your due;
for among all the wise ones of the nations
and in all their kingdoms
there is none like you.
8 (J)They are both (K)stupid and foolish;
the instruction of idols is but wood!
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 10:3 Or vapor, or mist
- Jeremiah 10:5 Hebrew They
Jeremiah 2:27-28
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27 who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their back to me,
and not their face.
But (A)in the time of their trouble they say,
‘Arise and save us!’
28 But (B)where are your gods
that you made for yourself?
Let them arise, (C)if they can save you,
in your time of trouble;
for (D)as many as your cities
are your gods, O Judah.
Jeremiah 2:11
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11 (A)Has a nation changed its gods,
(B)even though they are no gods?
But my people (C)have changed their glory
for (D)that which does not profit.
Isaiah 46:6-7
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6 (A)Those who lavish gold from the purse,
and weigh out silver in the scales,
hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;
(B)then they fall down and worship!
7 (C)They lift it to their shoulders, they carry it,
they set it in its place, and it stands there;
(D)it cannot move from its place.
If one cries to it, it does not answer
or save him from his trouble.
Isaiah 46:1-2
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The Idols of Babylon and the One True God
46 (A)Bel bows down; Nebo stoops;
their idols are on beasts and livestock;
these things you carry are borne
as burdens on weary beasts.
2 They stoop; they bow down together;
they cannot save the burden,
but (B)themselves go into captivity.
Isaiah 45:20
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20 (A)“Assemble yourselves and come;
draw near together,
you survivors of the nations!
(B)They have no knowledge
who (C)carry about their wooden idols,
(D)and keep on praying to a god
that cannot save.
Isaiah 44:20
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20 (A)He feeds on (B)ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not (C)a lie in my right hand?”
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Isaiah 44:18
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18 They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand.
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Isaiah 43:8
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8 Bring out (A)the people who are blind, yet have eyes,
who are deaf, yet have ears!
Isaiah 42:18
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Israel's Failure to Hear and See
18 Hear, you deaf,
and look, you blind, that you may see!
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