Bible Verses About Idolatry: Folly of

Then he will ask, 'Where are their gods, the rock in whom they trusted?

Who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let him get up and help you, let him protect you!

But early the next morning, when the people of Ashdod got up, there was Dagon, fallen down with his face to the ground before the ark of ADONAI. They took Dagon and set him in his place again;

but early the following morning, when they got up, Dagon was again fallen down with his face to the ground before the ark of ADONAI; this time, the head of Dagon and both hands lay there, severed, on the threshold; all that was left of Dagon was his torso.

During his time of distress this same King Achaz added to his treachery against ADONAI

by sacrificing to the gods of Dammesek, who had attacked him, reasoning, "The gods of the kings of Aram helped them, so I will sacrifice to them, and then they'll help me." But they became the ruin of him and of all Isra'el.

Their idols are mere silver and gold, made by human hands.

They have mouths, but they can't speak; they have eyes, but they can't see;

The idols of the nations are mere silver and gold, made by human hands.

They have mouths, but they can't speak; they have eyes, but they can't see;

they have ears, but they can't listen; and they have no breath in their mouths;

The people who make them will become like them, along with everyone who trusts in them.

Who has counted the handfuls of water in the sea, measured off the sky with a ruler, gauged how much dust there is on the earth, weighed the mountains on scales, or the hills in a balance?

Who has measured the Spirit of ADONAI? Who has been his counselor, instructing him?

Whom did he consult, to gain understanding? Who taught him how to judge, taught him what he needed to know, showed him how to discern?

The nations are like a drop in a bucket, they count like a grain of dust on the scales. The islands weigh as little as specks of dust.

The L'vanon would not suffice for fuel or its animals be enough for burnt offerings.

Before him all the nations are like nothing. He regards them as less than nothing.

With whom, then, will you compare God? By what standard will you evaluate him?

An image made by a craftsman, which a goldsmith overlays with gold, for which he then casts silver chains?

A man too poor to afford an offering chooses a piece of wood that won't rot, then seeks out a skilled artisan to prepare an image that won't fall over.

Don't you know? Don't you hear? Haven't you been told from the start? Don't you understand how the earth is set up?

He who sits above the circle of the earth - for whom its inhabitants appear like grasshoppers - stretches out the heavens like a curtain, spreads them out like a tent to live in.

He reduces princes to nothing, the rulers of the earth to emptiness.

Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely their stem taken root in the ground, when he blows on them, they dry up, and the whirlwind carries them off like straw.