Isaiah 2:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold— the idols they made to worship.”
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“In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold— the idols they made to worship.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;”
King James Version · Public Domain“In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“In that day doth man cast his idols of silver, And his idols of gold, That they have made for him to worship, To moles, and to bats,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 2:20 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 35:4So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
- Leviticus 11:19the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
- Ecclesiastes 3:6a time to search and a time to count as lost, a time to keep and a time to discard,
- Isaiah 10:3What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
- Isaiah 30:22So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”
- Isaiah 31:7For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.
- Isaiah 46:1Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
- Isaiah 46:6They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.
- Hosea 14:8O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.
- Zephaniah 2:11The LORD will be terrifying to them when He starves all the gods of the earth. Then the nations of every shore will bow in worship to Him, each in its own place.
- Philippians 3:7But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
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