Then you will defile your silver-covered idols and your gold-plated images. You will scatter them like filthy rags; you will say to them, “Away with you!”
Ezekiel 11:18 - New Revised Standard Version When they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And when they return there, they shall take away from it all traces of its detestable things and all its abominations (sex impurities and heathen religious practices). American Standard Version (1901) And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. Common English Bible They will enter the land, and they will remove from it all its disgusting and detestable things. Catholic Public Domain Version And they shall go to that place, and they shall remove all the offenses and all its abominations from that place. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they shall go in thither and shall take away all the scandals and all the abominations thereof from thence. |
Then you will defile your silver-covered idols and your gold-plated images. You will scatter them like filthy rags; you will say to them, “Away with you!”
And I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.
But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their deeds upon their own heads, says the Lord God.
so that the house of Israel may no longer go astray from me, nor defile themselves any more with all their transgressions. Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God, says the Lord God.
They shall never again defile themselves with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all the apostasies into which they have fallen, and will cleanse them. Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations—therefore I will cut you down; my eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.
From their beautiful ornament, in which they took pride, they made their abominable images, their detestable things; therefore I will make of it an unclean thing to them.
O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; your faithfulness comes from me.
Those who are wise understand these things; those who are discerning know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.
training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly,