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.
Jeremiah 10:5
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5 Their idols[a] are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
and (A)they cannot speak;
(B)they have to be carried,
for they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
(C)for they cannot do evil,
neither is it in them to do good.”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 10:5 Hebrew They
Isaiah 44:17-20
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17 And the rest of it he makes into a god, his idol, and falls down to it and worships it. (A)He prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god!”
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. 19 No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an (B)abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?” 20 (C)He feeds on (D)ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not (E)a lie in my right hand?”
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Isaiah 43:9
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9 (A)All the nations gather together,
and the peoples assemble.
Who among them can declare this,
and show us the former things?
Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right,
and let them hear and say, It is true.
Isaiah 46:1
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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.
Psalm 115:8
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8 (A)Those who make them become like them;
so do all who trust in them.
Revelation 18:3-18
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3 For all nations have drunk[a]
(A)the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality,
and (B)the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her,
and (C)the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.”
4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,
(D)“Come out of her, my people,
lest you take part in her sins,
lest you share in her plagues;
5 for (E)her sins are heaped high as heaven,
and (F)God has remembered her iniquities.
6 (G)Pay her back as she herself has paid back others,
and repay her (H)double for her deeds;
mix a double portion for her (I)in the cup she mixed.
7 (J)As she glorified herself and lived in luxury,
so give her a like measure of torment and mourning,
since in her heart she says,
(K)‘I sit as a queen,
I am no widow,
and mourning I shall never see.’
8 For this reason her plagues will come (L)in a single day,
death and mourning and famine,
and (M)she will be burned up with fire;
for (N)mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.”
9 And (O)the kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her, (P)will weep and wail over her (Q)when they see the smoke of her burning. 10 (R)They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say,
“Alas! Alas! (S)You great city,
you mighty city, Babylon!
For (T)in a single hour your judgment has come.”
11 And (U)the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore, 12 cargo of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all kinds of scented wood, all kinds of articles of ivory, all kinds of articles of costly wood, bronze, iron and marble, 13 cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls.[b]
14 “The fruit for which your soul longed
has gone from you,
and all your delicacies and your splendors
are lost to you,
never to be found again!”
15 (V)The merchants of these wares, who gained wealth from her, (W)will stand far off, in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning aloud,
16 “Alas, alas, for the great city
(X)that was clothed in fine linen,
in purple and scarlet,
adorned with gold,
with jewels, and with pearls!
17 For (Y)in a single hour all this wealth (Z)has been laid waste.”
And (AA)all shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off 18 and (AB)cried out (AC)as they saw the smoke of her burning,
(AD)“What city was like the great city?”
Footnotes
- Revelation 18:3 Some manuscripts fallen by
- Revelation 18:13 Or and slaves, and human lives
Ephesians 2:16
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16 and might (A)reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
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Ephesians 2:12
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12 remember (A)that you were at that time separated from Christ, (B)alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to (C)the covenants of promise, (D)having no hope and without God in the world.
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Romans 1:21-23
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21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they (A)became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 (B)Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and (C)exchanged the glory of (D)the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
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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.”
Jeremiah 51:17-18
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17 Every man is stupid and without knowledge;
every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,
for his images are false,
and there is no breath in them.
18 They are worthless, a work of delusion;
at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
Jeremiah 51:6-9
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6 (A)“Flee from the midst of Babylon;
let every one save his life!
(B)Be not cut off in her punishment,
(C)for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance,
the repayment he is rendering her.
7 Babylon was (D)a golden cup in the Lord's hand,
(E)making all the earth drunken;
(F)the nations drank of her wine;
therefore the nations went mad.
8 (G)Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken;
(H)wail for her!
(I)Take balm for her pain;
perhaps she may be healed.
9 We would have healed Babylon,
but she was not healed.
(J)Forsake her, and (K)let us go
each to his own country,
for (L)her judgment has reached up to heaven
and has been lifted up even to the skies.
Jeremiah 50:28
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28 “A voice! They (A)flee and escape from the land of Babylon, (B)to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, vengeance for (C)his temple.
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Jeremiah 25:15-29
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The Cup of the Lord's Wrath
15 Thus the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: (A)“Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it. 16 They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of (B)the sword that I am sending among them.”
17 So I took the cup from the Lord's hand, (C)and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it: 18 (D)Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, (E)to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day; 19 (F)Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, all his people, 20 and (G)all the mixed tribes among them; all the kings of (H)the land of Uz and all the kings of (I)the land of the Philistines ((J)Ashkelon, (K)Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of (L)Ashdod); 21 (M)Edom, (N)Moab, and the sons of (O)Ammon; 22 all the kings of (P)Tyre, all the kings of (Q)Sidon, and the kings of the coastland across (R)the sea; 23 (S)Dedan, (T)Tema, (U)Buz, and all who cut (V)the corners of their hair; 24 all the (W)kings of Arabia and all the kings of (X)the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert; 25 all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of (Y)Elam, and all the kings of (Z)Media; 26 all the kings of (AA)the north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of (AB)Babylon[a] shall drink.
27 “Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (AC)Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of (AD)the sword that I am sending among you.’
28 “And if they refuse to accept the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: (AE)You must drink! 29 For behold, (AF)I begin to work disaster at the city that is called by my name, and shall you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, (AG)for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the Lord of hosts.’
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- Jeremiah 25:26 Hebrew Sheshach, a code name for Babylon
Jeremiah 10:14
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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.
Jeremiah 10:8
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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.
Isaiah 48:5-7
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5 (A)I declared them to you from of old,
before they came to pass I announced them to you,
lest you should say, (B)‘My idol did them,
my carved image and my metal image commanded them.’
6 “You have heard; now see all this;
and will you not declare it?
From this time forth (C)I announce to you new things,
hidden things that you have not known.
7 They are created now, not long ago;
before today you have never heard of them,
lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
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 42:17-18
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17 (A)They are turned back and utterly put to shame,
who trust in carved idols,
who say to metal images,
“You are our gods.”
Israel's Failure to Hear and See
18 Hear, you deaf,
and look, you blind, that you may see!
Isaiah 41:21
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The Futility of Idols
21 Set forth your case, says the Lord;
bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.
Isaiah 41:5-6
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5 (A)The coastlands have seen and are afraid;
the ends of the earth tremble;
they have drawn near and come.
6 Everyone helps his neighbor
and says to his brother, “Be strong!”
Isaiah 4:2
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The Branch of the Lord Glorified
2 In that day (A)the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and (B)the fruit of the land shall be the pride and honor of the survivors of Israel.
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1 Kings 18:26-29
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26 And they took the bull that was given them, and they prepared it and called upon the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no voice, and no one answered. And they limped around the altar that they had made. 27 And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.” 28 And they cried aloud and (A)cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them. 29 And as midday passed, they raved on until the time of (B)the offering of the oblation, but there was no voice. No one answered; no one paid attention.
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