What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend,
For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people
You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.
say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to Me and not thei
But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’ will be turned back in utter shame.
Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
They will all be put to shame and humiliated; the makers of idols will depart together in disgrace.
Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are
Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false won
Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pra
Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the
They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they
What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teac
The strong man will become tinder and his work will be a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the flame
He cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a lau
“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is capt
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had t
Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. This beast had two horns like a lamb, but spoke like a dragon.
One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the swor
For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the ha