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Isaiah 41:24

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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

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About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that ‘an idol is nothing in the world’,  and that ‘there is no God but one’.


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


They are both stupid and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!


On her forehead was written a name, a mystery:  Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and of the Detestable Things of the Earth.


Everyone is stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his carved image, for his cast images are a lie; there is no breath in them.


‘As they leave, they will see the dead bodies of those who have rebelled against me;  for their worm  will never die, their fire will never go out,  and they will be a horror to all humanity.’


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.


“The person who makes a carved idol or cast image, which is detestable to the Lord, the work of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret is cursed.” And all the people will reply, “Amen! ”


Do not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction like it. You are to abhor and detest it utterly because it is set apart for destruction.


for the devious are detestable to the  Lord, but he is a friend  to the upright.


Anyone who turns his ear away from hearing the law – even his prayer is detestable.


Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried  because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm   – and they cannot do any good.


They are worthless, a work to be mocked. At the time of their punishment they will be destroyed.


Burn the carved images of their gods. Don’t covet the silver and gold on the images and take it for yourself, or else you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the Lord your God.





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