13 and (A)I will cut off your carved images
    and (B)your pillars from among you,
(C)and you shall bow down no more
    to the work of your hands;

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13 I will destroy your idols(A)
    and your sacred stones from among you;(B)
you will no longer bow down
    to the work of your hands.(C)

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then those of you who escape (A)will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how (B)I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes (C)that go whoring after their idols. (D)And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.

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Then in the nations where they have been carried captive, those who escape will remember(A) me—how I have been grieved(B) by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have lusted after their idols.(C) They will loathe themselves for the evil(D) they have done and for all their detestable practices.(E)

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25 (A)I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from (B)all your uncleannesses, and (C)from all your idols (D)I will cleanse you.

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25 I will sprinkle(A) clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse(B) you from all your impurities(C) and from all your idols.(D)

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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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“On that day, I will banish the names of the idols(A) from the land, and they will be remembered no more,”(B) declares the Lord Almighty. “I will remove both the prophets(C) and the spirit of impurity from the land.

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O (A)Ephraim, what have I to do with idols?
    It is I who answer and look after you.[a]
I am like an evergreen cypress;
    (B)from me comes your fruit.

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  1. Hosea 14:8 Hebrew him

Ephraim, what more have I[a] to do with idols?(A)
    I will answer him and care for him.
I am like a flourishing juniper;(B)
    your fruitfulness comes from me.”

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  1. Hosea 14:8 Or Hebrew; Septuagint What more has Ephraim

(A)Assyria shall not save us;
    (B)we will not ride on horses;
and (C)we will say no more, ‘Our God,’
    to the work of our hands.
(D)In you the orphan finds mercy.”

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Assyria cannot save us;(A)
    we will not mount warhorses.(B)
We will never again say ‘Our gods’(C)
    to what our own hands have made,(D)
    for in you the fatherless(E) find compassion.”

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16 “And (A)in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’ 17 For (B)I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.

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16 “In that day,” declares the Lord,
    “you will call me ‘my husband’;(A)
    you will no longer call me ‘my master.[a]
17 I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips;(B)
    no longer will their names be invoked.(C)

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  1. Hosea 2:16 Hebrew baal

23 (A)They shall not (B)defile themselves anymore (C)with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But (D)I will save them from all the backslidings[a] in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and (E)they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

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  1. Ezekiel 37:23 Many Hebrew manuscripts; other Hebrew manuscripts dwellings

23 They will no longer defile(A) themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding,[a](B) and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.(C)

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  1. Ezekiel 37:23 Many Hebrew manuscripts (see also Septuagint); most Hebrew manuscripts all their dwelling places where they sinned

(A)In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel. (B)He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not look on what his own fingers have made, either the (C)Asherim or the altars of incense.

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In that day(A) people will look(B) to their Maker(C)
    and turn their eyes to the Holy One(D) of Israel.
They will not look to the altars,(E)
    the work of their hands,(F)
and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles[a](G)
    and the incense altars their fingers(H) have made.

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  1. Isaiah 17:8 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah

Their land is (A)filled with idols;
    they bow down to (B)the work of their hands,
    to what their own fingers have made.

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Their land is full of idols;(A)
    they bow down(B) to the work of their hands,(C)
    to what their fingers(D) have made.

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