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20 At that time,[a] mankind will throw
    their silver and gold idols[b]
that their fingers have made[c] as objects of worship
    to the moles and to the bats.
21 They will enter caverns in the rocks
    and clefts in the cliffs,
to escape[d] the terror of the Lord
    and to escape[e] the splendor of his majesty,
        when he arises to terrorize the earth.

22 “Stop trusting in human beings,
    whose life breath is in their nostrils,
        for what are they[f] really worth?”[g]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 2:20 Lit. day
  2. Isaiah 2:20 Lit. silver idols and gold idols
  3. Isaiah 2:20 So 1QIsaa; MT reads that they made for themselves; LXX reads that they made
  4. Isaiah 2:21 Lit. from
  5. Isaiah 2:21 Lit. from
  6. Isaiah 2:22 Lit. what is he
  7. Isaiah 2:22 LXX lacks this verse