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Isaiah 37:19

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods  but made from wood and stone  by human hands.  So they have destroyed them.

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For this thing is from Israel – a craftsman made it,  and it is not God. The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!


You are to say this to them: ‘The gods that did not make the heavens  and the earth will perish from the earth  and from under these heavens.’


He makes a god or his idol with the rest of it. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it,  ‘Save me, for you are my god.’


Look, all of them are a delusion; their works are non-existent; their images are wind and emptiness.


Look, you are nothing and your work is worthless. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.


The craftsman encourages the metalworker; the one who flattens with the hammer encourages the one who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, ‘It is good.’ He fastens it with nails so that it will not fall over.


The dead do not live; departed spirits do not rise up. Indeed, you have punished and destroyed them; you have wiped out all memory of them.


The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men carried them off.


He took the calf they had made, burned it up, and ground it to powder. He scattered the powder over the surface of the water and forced the Israelites to drink the water.


But in the past, since you didn’t know God,  you were enslaved to things  that by nature are not gods.


Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the work of their hands, what their fingers have made.


They will not look to the altars  they made with their hands or to the Asherahs and shrines  , they made with their fingers.


‘I will pronounce my judgements against them for all the evil they did when they abandoned me to burn incense to other gods and to worship the works of their own hands.


Has a nation ever exchanged its gods? (But they were not gods!  ) Yet my people have exchanged their   Glory for useless idols.


Can one make gods for himself? But they are not gods.


Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of the heavens. The vessels from his house were brought to you, and as you and your nobles, wives, and concubines drank wine from them,  you praised the gods made of silver and gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or understand.  But you have not glorified the God who holds your life-breath in his hand and who controls the whole course of your life.  ,


He will take even their gods captive to Egypt, with their metal images and their precious articles of silver and gold.  For some years he will stay away from the king of the North,


But this is not what he intends; this is not what he plans. It is his intent to destroy and to cut off many nations.





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