15 They are worthless, a work of delusion;
    at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

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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.

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24 Behold, (A)you are nothing,
    and your work is less than nothing;
    an abomination is he who chooses you.

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18 They are worthless, a work of delusion;
    at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

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Idolatry Cut Off

“And (A)on that day, declares the Lord of hosts, (B)I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that (C)they shall be remembered no more. And also (D)I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.

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(A)Those who pay regard to vain idols
    (B)forsake their hope of steadfast love.

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19 Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people
    from (A)the length and breadth of the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
    (B)Is her King not in her?”
(C)“Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images
    and with their foreign idols?”

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12 Were they ashamed when they committed abomination?
    No, (A)they were not at all ashamed;
    they did not know how to blush.
(B)Therefore they shall fall among the fallen;
    when I punish them, they shall be overthrown,
says the Lord.

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18 (A)And the idols shall utterly pass away.
19 (B)And people shall enter the caves of the rocks
    and the holes of the ground,[a]
from before the terror of the Lord,
    and from the splendor of his majesty,
    (C)when he rises to terrify the earth.

20 In that day (D)mankind will cast away
    their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
which they made for themselves to worship,
    to the moles and to the (E)bats,
21 (F)to enter the caverns of the rocks
    and the clefts of the cliffs,
from before the terror of the Lord,
    and from the splendor of his majesty,
    (G)when he rises to terrify the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 2:19 Hebrew dust

15 “Men, (A)why are you doing these things? We also are men, (B)of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that (C)you should turn from these (D)vain things to (E)a living God, (F)who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

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“I will sweep away (A)man and beast;
    I will sweep away the birds of the heavens
    and (B)the fish of the sea,
and (C)the rubble[a] with the wicked.
    I will (D)cut off mankind
    from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.
“I will stretch out my hand against Judah
    and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
(E)and I will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal
    and the name of the idolatrous priests along with the priests,

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 1:3 Or stumbling blocks (that is, idols)

11 Thus shall you say to them: (A)“The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth (B)shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 10:11 This verse is in Aramaic

(A)They are both (B)stupid and foolish;
    the instruction of idols is but wood!

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29 (A)Behold, they are all a delusion;
    their works are nothing;
    their metal images are empty wind.

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21 And (A)do not turn aside after (B)empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.

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21 (A)They have made me jealous with what is no god;
    they have provoked me to anger (B)with their idols.
So (C)I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
    I will provoke them to anger with (D)a foolish nation.

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