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16     for all the ships of Tarshish,
    and for all pleasant imagery.
17 The loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
    and the arrogance of men shall be brought low;
    and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
18 The idols shall utterly pass away.
19 Men shall go into the caves of the rocks,
    and into the holes of the earth,
    from before the terror of Yahweh,
    and from the glory of his majesty,
    when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
20 In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver
    and their idols of gold,
    which have been made for themselves to worship,
    to the moles and to the bats,
21     to go into the caverns of the rocks,
    and into the clefts of the ragged rocks,
    from before the terror of Yahweh,
    and from the glory of his majesty,
    when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
22 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils;
    for of what account is he?

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