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Habakkuk 2:18-20
1599 Geneva Bible
Habakkuk 2:18-20
1599 Geneva Bible
18 What profiteth the [a]image? for the maker therefore hath made it an image, and a teacher of lies, though he that made it, trust therein, when he maketh dumb idols.
19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake, and to the dumb stone, Rise up, it shall teach thee: [b]behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath in it.
20 But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
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- Habakkuk 2:18 He showeth that the Babylonians’ gods could nothing avail them, for they were but blocks or stones, read Jer. 10:8.
- Habakkuk 2:19 If thou wilt consider what it is, and how that it hath neither breath nor life, but is a dead thing.
Habakkuk 2:18-20
New International Version
Habakkuk 2:18-20
New International Version
18 “Of what value(A) is an idol(B) carved by a craftsman?
Or an image(C) that teaches lies?
For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation;
he makes idols that cannot speak.(D)
19 Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Come to life!’
Or to lifeless stone, ‘Wake up!’(E)
Can it give guidance?
It is covered with gold and silver;(F)
there is no breath in it.”(G)
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