I know the glorious day will come when each of you will throw away the gold idols and silver images your sinful hands have made.
Parallel translations
- WEB For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold — sin which your own hands have made for you.
- KJV For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
- BSB For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.
- NKJV For in that day every man shall throw away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin, which your own hands have made for yourselves.
- NASB For on that day every person will reject his silver idols and his gold idols, which your hands have made for you as a sin.
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Quick answer
In that day everyone will cast away the silver and gold idols their own hands sinfully made. It matters because genuine return to God means renouncing idolatry.
Overview
Repentance bears visible fruit: the people will throw away the idols they crafted, acknowledging them as sin. The verse names idolatry as a self-made offense to be abandoned. It anticipates the heart-change of the new covenant, where God turns His people from idols to serve Him through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Isa 30:22You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”
- Isa 2:20In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
- Ezek 36:25I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
- Hos 14:8Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green cypress tree; from me your fruit is found.”
- Deut 7:25You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
- 1 Kgs 12:28–30So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
- Hos 8:11Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.
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