The worthless idols will be completely eliminated.

At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live,

For at that time everyone will get rid of the silver and gold idols your hands sinfully made.

For all the gods of the nations are worthless, but the Lord made the heavens.

But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians!

For all the gods of the nations are worthless, but the Lord made the sky.

I overpowered kingdoms ruled by idols, whose carved images were more impressive than Jerusalem’s or Samaria’s.

Do not turn to idols, and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal. I am the Lord your God.

All who worship idols are ashamed, those who boast about worthless idols. All the gods bow down before him.

Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned.

As I have done to Samaria and its idols, so I will do to Jerusalem and its idols.”

Here is a message about Egypt: Look, the Lord rides on a swift-moving cloud and approaches Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before him; the Egyptians lose their courage.

The Egyptians will panic, and I will confuse their strategy. They will seek guidance from the idols and from the spirits of the dead, from the pits used to conjure up underworld spirits, and from the magicians.

What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things?

Woe to the worthless shepherd who abandons the flock! May a sword fall on his arm and his right eye! May his arm wither completely away, and his right eye become completely blind!”

“‘You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it, for I am the Lord your God.

Then the Lord said to me, “Those prophets are prophesying lies while claiming my authority! I did not send them. I did not commission them. I did not speak to them. They are prophesying to these people false visions, worthless predictions, and the delusions of their own mind.

“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: I will destroy the idols, and put an end to the gods of Memphis. There will no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt; so I will make the land of Egypt fearful.