Those officers said bad things against the gods the people of the world worshiped. Those gods are only things people made with their hands. In the same way, those officers said the same bad things against the God of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 10:10 - Easy To Read Version I defeated those evil kingdoms and now I control them. The idols {\cf2\super [115]} those people worship are better than the idols of Jerusalem and Samaria. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols [which were unable to defend them,] whose graven images were more to be feared and dreaded and more mighty than those of Jerusalem and of Samaria– American Standard Version (1901) As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; Common English Bible Just as I took control of idolatrous kingdoms with more images than Jerusalem and Samaria, Catholic Public Domain Version In the same manner as my hand reached the kingdoms of the idol, so also will it reach their false images, those of Jerusalem and of Samaria. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version As my hand hath found the kingdome of the idol, so also their idols of Jerusalem, and of Samaria. |
Those officers said bad things against the gods the people of the world worshiped. Those gods are only things people made with their hands. In the same way, those officers said the same bad things against the God of Jerusalem.
God, you will show all your enemies that you are strong.\par Your power will defeat the people who hate you.\par
With my own hands I have taken the riches of all these people—like a person taking eggs from a bird’s nest. A bird often leaves its nest and eggs. And there is nothing to protect the nest. There is no bird to chirp and fight with its wings and beak. So people take the eggs. \{In the same way,\} there was no person to stop me from taking all the people on earth.”
The kings of Assyria have burned the gods of those nations. But those were not real gods. They were only wood and stone—statues that men made. That is why the kings of Assyria could destroy them.