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Isaiah 2:20

Bible in Basic English 1965

In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places;

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Then they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which they had, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob put them away under the holy tree at Shechem.

A time for search and a time for loss; a time to keep and a time to give away;

And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?

He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.

And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!

For in that day they will all give up their images of silver and of gold, the sin which they made for themselves.

The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.

Bel is bent down, Nebo is falling; their images are on the beasts and on the cattle: the things which you took about have become a weight to the tired beast.

As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.

For this cause say to the children of Israel, These are the words of the Lord: Come back and give up your false gods and let your faces be turned from your disgusting things.

And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

They will put out their silver into the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they will not get their desire or have food for their need: because it has been the cause of their falling into sin.

As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.

The stork and the heron, and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.

The Lord will let himself be seen by them: for he will make all the gods of the earth feeble; and men will go down before him in worship, everyone from his place, even all the sea-lands of the nations.

For if they do these things when the tree is green, what will they do when it is dry?




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