19 They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods(A) but made from wood and stone(B) by human hands.(C) So they have destroyed them.

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There Is No One Like God

46 Bel crouches; Nebo cowers.(A)
Idols depicting them are consigned to beasts and cattle.
The images you carry are loaded,
as a burden for the weary animal.
The gods cower; they crouch together;
they are not able to rescue the burden,
but they themselves go into captivity.(B)

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12 I[a] will kindle a fire in the temples of Egypt’s gods,(A) and he will burn them and take them captive. He will clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd picks lice off[b] his clothes,(B) and he will leave there unscathed. 13 He will smash the sacred pillars of the sun temple[c][d] in the land of Egypt and burn the temples of the Egyptian gods.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 43:12 LXX, Syr, Vg read He
  2. 43:12 Or will wrap himself in the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in
  3. 43:13 Or Beth-shemesh
  4. 43:13 = of Heliopolis

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