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20 On that day humanity will throw away its idols of silver
    and its idols of gold,
        which they made for it to worship,
    to the rodents[a] and to the bats—
21 to enter into the crevices of the rocks
    and into the clefts of the crags
from the presence of the terror of Yahweh
    and from the glory of his majesty,
when he rises[b] to terrify the earth.
22 Turn away from humanity,
    who has breath in its nostrils,[c]
for by[d] what is it esteemed?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 2:20 Or “moles”
  2. Isaiah 2:21 Literally “in his rising”
  3. Isaiah 2:22 Hebrew “nostril”
  4. Isaiah 2:22 Or “in”