Bible Verses About Idolatry

My reaction was, "These must be the poor, the foolish, not knowing the way of ADONAI or the rulings of their God.

I will go to the prominent men, and I will speak to them; for they know the way of ADONAI and the rulings of their God." But these had completely broken the yoke and torn the harness off.

This is why a forest lion kills them, why a desert wolf can plunder them, why a leopard guards their cities - all who leave are torn to pieces - because their crimes are many, their backslidings keep increasing.

"Why should I forgive you? Your people have abandoned me and sworn by non-gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery, thronging to the brothels.

They have become like well-fed horses, lusty stallions, each one neighing after his neighbor's wife.

Should I not punish for this?" asks ADONAI. "Should I not be avenged on a nation like this?"

Go through her rows [of vines], and destroy them (but don't destroy them completely): strip away her branches, they do not belong to ADONAI.

"For the house of Isra'el and the house of Y'hudah have thoroughly betrayed me," says ADONAI.

They have denied ADONAI, they have said, "He won't do anything, calamity will not strike us, we will see neither sword nor famine.

The prophets are merely wind, they do not have the word; the things that they are predicting will happen only to them."

Therefore ADONAI Elohei-Tzva'ot says: "Because you people speak this way, I will make my words fire in your mouth, [Yirmeyahu,] and this people wood; so that it will devour them.

I will bring on you, house of Isra'el, a distant nation," says ADONAI, "an enduring nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know - you will not understand what they are saying.

Their quiver is like an open grave, they are all mighty warriors.

They will eat up your harvest and your bread, they will eat up your sons and your daughters, they will eat up your flocks and your herds, they will eat up your vines and your fig trees; with the sword they will beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust.

"At that time," says ADONAI, "[these enemies] will remove the bones of the kings of Y'hudah, the bones of his princes, the bones of the cohanim, the bones of the prophets and the bones of the inhabitants of Yerushalayim from their graves.

They will spread them out, exposed to the sun, the moon and the entire army of heaven, whom they loved, served, walked after, sought after and worshipped. The bones will not be collected or reburied but will be left lying on the ground like dung.

for the customs of the peoples are nothing. They cut down a tree in the forest; a craftsman works it with his axe;

they deck it with silver and gold. They fix it with hammer and nails, so that it won't move.

Like a scarecrow in a cucumber patch, it cannot speak. It has to be carried, because it cannot walk. Do not be afraid of it it can do nothing bad; likewise it is unable to do anything good!"

There is no one like you, ADONAI! You are great, and your name is great and mighty.

Who would not fear you, king of the nations? For it is your due! - since among all the wise of the nations and among all their royalty, there is no one like you.

One and all they are boorish and stupid; the teaching of their nothings is a piece of wood!

Silver is beaten into plates, then imported from Tarshish. Gold from Ufaz is worked by a craftsman and shaped by the hands of a goldsmith. They are clothed in blue and purple, all the work of skillful men.

But ADONAI, God, is the true God, the living God, the everlasting king. At his anger, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure his fury.

"This is what you must say to them: 'The gods that did not make heaven and earth will perish from earth and from under heaven.'"