Isaiah 37:38
38And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword. And after they escaped into the land of aArarat, bEsarhaddon his son reigned in his place.Isaiah 42:17
17 cThey are turned back and utterly put to shame,who trust in carved idols,
who say to metal images,
“You are our gods.”
Isaiah 44:9-10
The Folly of Idolatry
9 dAll who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame. 10 eWho fashions a god or casts an idol that is profitable for nothing?Isaiah 45:16
16 fAll of them are put to shame and confounded;the makers of idols go in confusion together.
Isaiah 45:20
20 g“Assemble yourselves and come;draw near together,
you survivors of the nations!
hThey have no knowledge
who icarry about their wooden idols,
jand keep on praying to a god
that cannot save.
Isaiah 46:1-2
The Idols of Babylon and the One True God
1 kBel bows down; Nebo stoops;their idols are on beasts and livestock;
these things you carry are borne
as burdens on weary beasts.
2They stoop; they bow down together;
they cannot save the burden,
but lthemselves go into captivity.
Isaiah 46:6-8
6 mThose who lavish gold from the purse,and weigh out silver in the scales,
hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;
nthen they fall down and worship!
7 oThey lift it to their shoulders, they carry it,
they set it in its place, and it stands there;
pit cannot move from its place.
If one cries to it, it does not answer
or save him from his trouble.
8 “Remember this and stand firm,
recall it to mind, qyou transgressors,
Jeremiah 2:27-28
27who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their back to me,
and not their face.
But rin the time of their trouble they say,
‘Arise and save us!’
28But swhere are your gods
that you made for yourself?
Let them arise, tif they can save you,
in your time of trouble;
for uas many as your cities
are your gods, O Judah.
Jeremiah 10:3-5
3 vfor the customs of the peoples are vanity. ▼▼Or vapor, or mist
xA tree from the forest is cut down
and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
4 yThey decorate it with silver and gold;
zthey fasten it with hammer and nails
so that it cannot move.
5Their idols ▼
▼Hebrew They
are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,and abthey cannot speak;
acthey have to be carried,
for they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
adfor they cannot do evil,
neither is it in them to do good.”
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