And they set them up images and idol poles on every high hill, and under every green tree:
Micah 5:14 - King James 2000 And I will pluck up your idol poles out of your midst: so will I destroy your cities. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I will root out your Asherim [symbols of the goddess Asherah] and I will destroy your cities [the seats of false worship]. [Deut. 16:21.] American Standard Version (1901) and I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee; and I will destroy thy cities. Common English Bible I will tear down your sacred poles in your midst; I will destroy your cities! Catholic Public Domain Version And I will exact vengeance, in fury and in indignation, among all the nations which have not listened. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I will execute vengeance in wrath and in indignation among all the nations that have not given ear. |
And they set them up images and idol poles on every high hill, and under every green tree:
To execute vengeance upon the nations, and punishments upon the people;
To execute upon them the judgment written: this honor have all his saints. Praise you the LORD.
But you shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their idol poles:
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall he respect that which his fingers have made, either the idol poles, or the incense altars.
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar like chalkstones that are beaten to dust, the idol poles and incense altars shall not remain standing.
But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, says the LORD.
The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: he has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought them down to the ground: he has polluted the kingdom and its princes.
And the LORD has given a commandment concerning you: No more shall your name be perpetuated: out of the house of your gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make your grave; for you are vile.