Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”
Parallel translations
- WEB “You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’”
- KJV Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
- NKJV Thus you shall say to them: “The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”
- NASB This is what you shall say to them: “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”
- NLT Say this to those who worship other gods: “Your so-called gods, who did not make the heavens and earth, will vanish from the earth and from under the heavens.”
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Quick answer
The people are to tell the nations that gods who did not make heaven and earth will perish. Only the Creator endures; false gods will vanish.
Overview
This verse, uniquely written in Aramaic, gives a message for the surrounding nations: every so-called god that did not create the heavens and earth will be destroyed from under them. The Creator-creature distinction is the dividing line between the true God and all idols. The verse declares the certain doom of false gods and the eternal reign of the One who made all things.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Ps 96:5For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.
- Isa 2:18and the idols will vanish completely.
- Jer 10:15They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
- Jer 51:18They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
- Zeph 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.
- Lam 3:66You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.
- Zech 13:2And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.
- Rev 20:2He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
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