The ones who make them, shall become like them – All who trust in them.
Isaiah 41:24 - The Scriptures 2009 “See, you are of naught, and your work a breath; he who chooses you is an abomination. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Behold, you [idols] are nothing, and your work is nothing! The worshiper who chooses you is an abomination [extremely disgusting and shamefully vile in God's sight]. [I Cor. 8:4.] American Standard Version (1901) Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you. Common English Bible Look! You are nobody, and your deeds are nothing. Whoever chooses you is disgusting. Catholic Public Domain Version Behold, you exist out of nothing, and your work is from what does not exist; he who has chosen you is an abomination. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination. |
The ones who make them, shall become like them – All who trust in them.
He who turns away his ear from hearing the Torah, Even his prayer is an abomination.
For the perverse one is an abomination to יהוה, And His secret counsel is with the straight.
and have put their mighty ones into the fire, for they were not mighty ones, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. And they destroyed them.
“See, all of them are useless, their works are naught, their moulded images are wind and confusion.
“And they shall go forth and look upon the corpses of the men who have transgressed against Me. For their worm shall not die, and their fire not be quenched. And they shall be repulsive to all flesh!”
Everyone is brutish in knowledge; every smith is put to shame by his idol. For his moulded image is falsehood, and there is no spirit in them.
They are worthless, a work of mockery. In the time of their punishment they perish.
“They are like a rounded post, and they do not speak. They have to be carried, because they do not walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they do no evil, nor is it in them to do any good.”
They are both brutish and foolish, an instruction of worthlessness is the tree.
So then, concerning the eating of food offered to idols, we know that an idol is no matter at all in the world, and that there is no other Elohim but one.
Cursed is the man who makes a carved or moulded image, an abomination to יהוה, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amĕn!’
“The carved images of their mighty ones you are to burn with fire. Do not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it, for it is an abomination to יהוה your Elohim.
“And do not bring an abomination into your house, lest you be accursed like it. Utterly loathe it and utterly hate it, for it is accursed.
and upon her forehead a name written, a secret: BAḆEL THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE WHORES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.