Isaiah 2:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ On that day people will throw away to the moles and to the bats their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ In that day men shall cast away to the moles and to the bats their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship,

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

Common English Bible

²⁰ On that day, people will toss to the rodents and to the bats their idols of silver and idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ In that day, man shall cast aside his idols of silver and his images of gold, which he had made for himself, as if to reverence the moles and the bats.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.

Isaiah 2:20 Cross References

Genesis 35:4

So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak that was near Shechem.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to throw away;

Isaiah 10:3

What will you do on the day of punishment, in the calamity that will come from far away? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth,

Isaiah 17:8

they will not have regard for the altars, the work of their hands, and they will not look to what their own fingers have made, either the sacred poles or the altars of incense.

Isaiah 30:22

Then you will defile your silver-covered idols and your gold-plated images. You will scatter them like impure things; you will say to them, “Away with you!”

Isaiah 31:7

For on that day all of you shall throw away your idols of silver and idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.

Isaiah 40:19

An idol? A workman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts for it silver chains.

Isaiah 46:1

Bel bows down; Nebo stoops; their idols are on beasts and cattle; these things you carry are loaded as burdens on weary animals.

Isaiah 46:6

Those who lavish gold from the purse and weigh out silver in the scales— they hire a goldsmith, who makes it into a god; then they fall down and worship!

Ezekiel 14:6

Therefore say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: Repent and turn away from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

Ezekiel 36:25

I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.

Ezekiel 7:19

They shall fling their silver into the streets; their gold shall be treated as unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them on the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.

Hosea 14:8

O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; your fruit comes from me.

Leviticus 11:19

the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.

Zephaniah 2:11

The Lord will be terrible against them; he will shrivel all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down each in its place, all the coasts and islands of the nations.

Luke 23:30

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’