32:21 They have made me jealous
enraging me with their worthless gods;
so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize,
with a nation slow to learn
32:1 Listen, O heavens, and I will speak;
hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
12:1 These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors,
16:13 You must celebrate the Festival of Temporary Shelters
16:1 Observe the month Abib
31:6 I hate those who serve worthless idols,
but I trust in the Lord.
44:9 All who form idols are nothing;
the things in which they delight are worthless.
Their witnesses cannot see;
they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.
44:10 Who forms a god and casts an idol
that will prove worthless?
44:19 No one thinks to himself,
nor do they comprehend or understand and say to themselves:
‘I burned half of it in the fire –
yes, I baked bread over the coals;
I roasted meat and ate it.
With the rest of it should I make a disgusting idol?
Should I bow down to dry wood?’
44:20 He feeds on ashes;
his deceived mind misleads him.
He cannot rescue himself,
nor does he say, ‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’
45:20 Gather together and come!
Approach together, you refugees from the nations!
Those who carry wooden idols know nothing,
those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.
46:7 They put it on their shoulder and carry it;
they put it in its place and it just stands there;
it does not
Even when someone cries out to it, it does not reply;
it does not deliver him from his distress.
8:19 I hear my dear people
throughout the length and breadth of the land.
They are crying, ‘Is the Lord no longer in Zion?
Is her divine King
The Lord answers,
“Why then do they provoke me to anger with their images,
with their worthless foreign idols?”
10:3 For the religion
They cut down a tree in the forest,
and a craftsman makes it into an idol with his tools.
10:4 He decorates it with overlays of silver and gold.
He uses hammer and nails to fasten it
so that it will not fall over.
10:5 Such idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field.
They cannot talk.
They must be carried
because they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them
because they cannot hurt you.
And they do not have any power to help you.”
10:8 The people of those nations
Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!
10:14 All these idolaters
Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made.
For the image he forges is merely a sham.
There is no breath in any of those idols.
10:15 They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked.
When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.
14:22 Do any of the worthless idols
Do the skies themselves send showers?
Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this?
So we put our hopes in you
because you alone do all this.”
2:4 This is what the Lord says:
“Because Judah has committed three covenant transgressions
make that four!
They rejected the Lord’s law;
they did not obey his commands.
Their false gods,
to which their fathers were loyal,
led them astray.
2:8 Those who worship
1:1 From Paul,
4:17 So I say this, and insist