Isaiah 44:9
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Idolatry Is Foolishness
9 (A)Those who make an image, all of them are useless,
And their precious things shall not profit;
They are their own witnesses;
(B)They neither see nor know, that they may be ashamed.
Jeremiah 10:14-15
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14 (A)Everyone is (B)dull-hearted, without knowledge;
(C)Every metalsmith is put to shame by an image;
(D)For his molded image is falsehood,
And there is no breath in them.
15 They are futile, a work of errors;
In the time of their punishment they shall perish.
Isaiah 41:24
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24 Indeed (A)you are nothing,
And your work is nothing;
He who chooses you is an abomination.
Habakkuk 2:18-20
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18 “What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it,
The molded image, a teacher of lies,
That the maker of its mold should trust in it,
To make mute idols?
19 Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’
To silent stone, ‘Arise! It shall teach!’
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
Yet in it there is no breath at all.
20 “But(A) the Lord is in His holy temple.
Let all the earth keep silence before Him.”
Isaiah 41:29
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29 (A)Indeed they are all [a]worthless;
Their works are nothing;
Their molded images are wind and confusion.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 41:29 So with MT, Vg.; DSS, Syr., Tg. nothing; LXX omits first line
Psalm 97:7
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7 (A)Let all be put to shame who serve carved images,
Who boast of idols.
(B)Worship Him, all you gods.
Ephesians 5:8
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Walk in Light
8 For you were once darkness, but now you are (A)light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
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2 Corinthians 4:4
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4 whose minds (A)the god of this age (B)has blinded, who do not believe, lest (C)the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, (D)who is the image of God, should shine on them.
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1 Corinthians 8:4
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4 Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that (A)an idol is nothing in the world, (B)and that there is no other God but one.
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Romans 1:22
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22 (A)Professing to be wise, they became fools,
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Hosea 8:4-6
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4 “They(A) set up kings, but not by Me;
They made princes, but I did not acknowledge them.
From their silver and gold
They made idols for themselves—
That they might be cut off.
5 Your [a]calf [b]is rejected, O Samaria!
My anger is aroused against them—
(B)How long until they attain to innocence?
6 For from Israel is even this:
A (C)workman made it, and it is not God;
But the calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.
Daniel 11:38
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38 But in their place he shall honor a god of fortresses; and a god which his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and pleasant things.
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Daniel 5:23
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23 (A)And you have [a]lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the (B)vessels of [b]His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, (C)which do not see or hear or know; and the God who holds your breath in His hand (D)and owns all your ways, you have not glorified.
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- Daniel 5:23 Exalted
- Daniel 5:23 The temple
Jeremiah 16:19-20
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19 O Lord, (A)my strength and my fortress,
(B)My refuge in the day of affliction,
The Gentiles shall come to You
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Surely our fathers have inherited lies,
Worthlessness and (C)unprofitable things.”
20 Will a man make gods for himself,
(D)Which are not gods?
Jeremiah 14:22
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22 (A)Are there any among (B)the idols of the nations that can cause (C)rain?
Or can the heavens give showers?
(D)Are You not He, O Lord our God?
Therefore we will wait for You,
Since You have made all these.
Jeremiah 10:3-8
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3 For the customs of the peoples are [a]futile;
For (A)one cuts a tree from the forest,
The work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.
4 They decorate it with silver and gold;
They (B)fasten it with nails and hammers
So that it will not topple.
5 They are upright, like a palm tree,
And (C)they cannot speak;
They must be (D)carried,
Because they cannot go by themselves.
Do not be afraid of them,
For (E)they cannot do evil,
Nor can they do any good.”
6 Inasmuch as there is none (F)like You, O Lord
(You are great, and Your name is great in might),
7 (G)Who would not fear You, O King of the nations?
For this is Your rightful due.
For (H)among all the wise men of the nations,
And in all their kingdoms,
There is none like You.
8 But they are altogether (I)dull-hearted and foolish;
A wooden idol is a [b]worthless doctrine.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 10:3 Lit. vanity
- Jeremiah 10:8 vain teaching
Jeremiah 2:27-28
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27 Saying to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
And to a (A)stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’
For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face.
But in the time of their (B)trouble
They will say, ‘Arise and save us.’
28 But (C)where are your gods that you have made for yourselves?
Let them arise,
If they (D)can save you in the time of your [a]trouble;
For (E)according to the number of your cities
Are your gods, O Judah.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:28 Or evil
Jeremiah 2:11
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11 (A)Has a nation changed its gods,
Which are (B)not gods?
(C)But My people have changed their Glory
For what does not profit.
Isaiah 46:6-7
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6 (A)They lavish gold out of the bag,
And weigh silver on the scales;
They hire a (B)goldsmith, and he makes it a god;
They prostrate themselves, yes, they worship.
7 (C)They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it
And set it in its place, and it stands;
From its place it shall not move.
Though (D)one cries out to it, yet it cannot answer
Nor save him out of his trouble.
Isaiah 46:1-2
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Dead Idols and the Living God
46 Bel (A)bows down, Nebo stoops;
Their idols were on the beasts and on the cattle.
Your carriages were heavily loaded,
(B)A burden to the weary beast.
2 They stoop, they bow down together;
They could not deliver the burden,
(C)But have themselves gone into captivity.
Isaiah 45:20
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20 “Assemble yourselves and come;
Draw near together,
You who have escaped from the nations.
(A)They have no knowledge,
Who carry the wood of their carved image,
And pray to a god that cannot save.
Isaiah 44:20
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20 He feeds on ashes;
(A)A deceived heart has turned him aside;
And he cannot deliver his soul,
Nor say, “Is there not a (B)lie in my right hand?”
Isaiah 44:18
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18 (A)They do not know nor understand;
For (B)He has [a]shut their eyes, so that they cannot see,
And their hearts, so that they cannot (C)understand.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 44:18 Lit. smeared over
Isaiah 43:8
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Isaiah 42:18
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18 “Hear, you deaf;
And look, you blind, that you may see.
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