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Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that in a case where they speak against you as those who do what is evil, they will, by observing your good works, glorify God on the day of visitation.
Verse Concepts
when devastation comes from far away?
Who will you run to for help?
Where will you leave your wealth?
At the time of their punishment
they will be destroyed.
are like stall-fed calves.
They too will turn back;
together they will flee;
they will not take their stand,
for the day of their calamity is coming on them,
the time of their punishment.
the days of retribution have come.
Let Israel recognize it!
The prophet is a fool,
and the inspired man is insane,
because of the magnitude
of your guilt and hostility.
the most upright is worse than a hedge of thorns.
The day of your watchmen,
the day of your punishment, is coming;
at this time their panic is here.
Idolatry » Prophecies relating to
and the result of the removal of his sin will be this:
when he makes all the altar stones
like crushed bits of chalk,
no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.
horsemen in pairs.”
And he answered, saying,
“Babylon has fallen,
All the images of her gods
have been shattered on the ground.”
I will make him vomit what he swallowed.
The nations will no longer stream to him;
even Babylon’s wall will fall.
their silver and gold idols,
which they made to worship,
to the moles and the bats.
An oracle against Egypt:
Look, the Lord rides on a swift cloud
and is coming to Egypt.
Egypt’s idols will tremble before Him,
and Egypt’s heart will melt within it.
and is coming to Egypt.
Egypt’s idols will tremble before Him,
and Egypt’s heart will melt within it.
now they must bear their guilt.
The Lord will break down their altars
and demolish their sacred pillars.
At the time of their punishment
they will be destroyed.
On that day”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.
“I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night and strike every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. I am Yahweh; I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt.
when He starves all the gods of the earth.
Then all the distant coastlands of the nations
will bow in worship to Him,
each in its own place.
On that day people will look to their Maker and will turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel. They will not look to the altars they made with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altars they made with their fingers.
For on that day, every one of you will reject the silver and gold idols that your own hands have sinfully made.
You are to say this to them, “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”
when I will punish Babylon’s carved images.
Her entire land will suffer shame,
and all her slain will lie fallen within her.
this is the Lord’s declaration—
when I will punish her carved images,
and the wounded will groan
throughout her land.
He said to me: "Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. [The house of] Israel and their kings will no longer defile My holy name by their [religious] prostitution and by the corpses of their kings at their high places. Whenever they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with [only] a wall between Me and them, they were defiling My holy name by the abominations they committed. So I destroyed them in My anger. Now let them remove their prostitution and the corpses of their kings far from Me, and I will dwell among them forever.
and sacred pillars from you
so that you will not bow down again
to the work of your hands.
Idols » Vanity of
and they will be dried up.
For it is a land of carved images,
and they go mad because of terrifying things.
Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you and your nobles, wives, and concubines drank wine from them, you praised the gods made of silver and gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or understand. But you have not glorified the God who holds your life-breath in His hand and who controls the whole course of your life.
Being God’s offspring then, we shouldn’t think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image fashioned by human art and imagination.
At the time of their punishment
they will be destroyed.
after its craftsman carves it?
It is only a cast image, a teacher of lies.
For the one who crafts its shape trusts in it
and makes idols that cannot speak.
their idols cannot speak.
They must be carried
Do not fear them for they can do no harm
and they cannot do any good.
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his carved image,
for his cast images are a lie;
there is no breath in them.
What am I saying then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
Visitation » Day of
Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that in a case where they speak against you as those who do what is evil, they will, by observing your good works, glorify God on the day of visitation.
Verse Concepts
when devastation comes from far away?
Who will you run to for help?
Where will you leave your wealth?
At the time of their punishment
they will be destroyed.
are like stall-fed calves.
They too will turn back;
together they will flee;
they will not take their stand,
for the day of their calamity is coming on them,
the time of their punishment.
the days of retribution have come.
Let Israel recognize it!
The prophet is a fool,
and the inspired man is insane,
because of the magnitude
of your guilt and hostility.
the most upright is worse than a hedge of thorns.
The day of your watchmen,
the day of your punishment, is coming;
at this time their panic is here.
false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Vanity of
and they will be dried up.
For it is a land of carved images,
and they go mad because of terrifying things.
Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you and your nobles, wives, and concubines drank wine from them, you praised the gods made of silver and gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or understand. But you have not glorified the God who holds your life-breath in His hand and who controls the whole course of your life.
Being God’s offspring then, we shouldn’t think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image fashioned by human art and imagination.
At the time of their punishment
they will be destroyed.
after its craftsman carves it?
It is only a cast image, a teacher of lies.
For the one who crafts its shape trusts in it
and makes idols that cannot speak.
their idols cannot speak.
They must be carried
Do not fear them for they can do no harm
and they cannot do any good.
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his carved image,
for his cast images are a lie;
there is no breath in them.
What am I saying then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
FALSE » Idols characterized, as » Vanity of
and they will be dried up.
For it is a land of carved images,
and they go mad because of terrifying things.
Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you and your nobles, wives, and concubines drank wine from them, you praised the gods made of silver and gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or understand. But you have not glorified the God who holds your life-breath in His hand and who controls the whole course of your life.
Being God’s offspring then, we shouldn’t think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image fashioned by human art and imagination.
At the time of their punishment
they will be destroyed.
after its craftsman carves it?
It is only a cast image, a teacher of lies.
For the one who crafts its shape trusts in it
and makes idols that cannot speak.
their idols cannot speak.
They must be carried
Do not fear them for they can do no harm
and they cannot do any good.
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his carved image,
for his cast images are a lie;
there is no breath in them.
What am I saying then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?