Anyone who turns his ear away from hearing the law – even his prayer is detestable.
Isaiah 41:24 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Look, you are nothing and your work is worthless. Anyone who chooses you is detestable. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Anyone who turns his ear away from hearing the law – even his prayer is detestable.
for the devious are detestable to the Lord, but he is a friend to the upright.
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.
Look, all of them are a delusion; their works are non-existent; their images are wind and emptiness.
‘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.’
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.
They are worthless, a work to be mocked. At the time of their punishment they will be destroyed.
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 both stupid and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
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’.
“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! ”
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.
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.
On her forehead was written a name, a mystery: Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and of the Detestable Things of the Earth.