Your carved images I will also cut off, And your sacred pillars from your midst; You shall no more worship the work of your hands;
Parallel translations
- WEB I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out from among you; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.
- KJV Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.
- BSB I will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your own hands.
- NASB “I will eliminate your carved images And your memorial stones from among you, So that you will no longer bow down To the work of your hands.
- NLT I will destroy all your idols and sacred pillars, so you will never again worship the work of your own hands.
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Quick answer
God will destroy idols and sacred pillars so the people no longer worship what their hands have made. It promises the end of idolatry.
Overview
Carved images and standing stones, the objects of false worship, will be cut off. The goal is that God's people 'no more worship the work of your hands.' This cleansing restores the exclusive worship of Yahweh that the first commandments require.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ezek 6:9Those of you that escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols. Then they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
- 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.
- Isa 17:7–8In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
- 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.”
- Isa 2:8Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
- Ezek 37:23neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
- Hos 14:3Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
- Zech 13:2It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.
- Hos 2:16–17It will be in that day,” says Yahweh, “that you will call me ‘my husband,’ and no longer call me ‘my master.’
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