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As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols, kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria—
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shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images as I dealt with Samaria and her idols?’”
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Look, here comes a man in a chariot with a team of horses. And he gives back the answer: ‘Babylon has fallen, has fallen! All the images of its gods lie shattered on the ground!’”
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Then you will desecrate your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, “Away with you!”
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With whom, then, will you compare God? To what image will you liken him?
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Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
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so that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.
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See, they are all false! Their deeds amount to nothing; their images are but wind and confusion.
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But those who trust in idols, who say to images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back in utter shame.
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Israel’s Only Savior
But now, this is what the Lord says— he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
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everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”
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“You heavens above, rain down my righteousness; let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness flourish with it; I, the Lord, have created it.
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It is I who made the earth and created mankind on it. My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshaled their starry hosts.
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For this is what the Lord says— he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited— he says: “I am the Lord, and there is no other.
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Gods of Babylon
Bel bows down, Nebo stoops low; their idols are borne by beasts of burden. The images that are carried about are burdensome, a burden for the weary.
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Therefore I told you these things long ago; before they happened I announced them to you so that you could not say, ‘My images brought them about; my wooden image and metal god ordained them.’
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They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot say, ‘Yes, I knew of them.’
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“See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to wreak havoc;
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I will not accuse them forever, nor will I always be angry, for then they would faint away because of me— the very people I have created.
