Bible Verses About Idolatry

and they, in their kingdom, and in Thine abundant goodness, that Thou hast given to them, and in the land, the large and the fat, that Thou hast set before them, have not served Thee, nor turned back from their evil doings.

`Lo, we--to-day-- are servants, and the land that Thou hast given to our fathers, to eat its fruit and its good--lo, we are servants on it,

and its increase it is multiplying to the kings whom Thou hast set over us in our sins; and over our bodies they are ruling, and over our cattle, according to their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

And make Him angry with their high places, And with their graven images make Him zealous,

God hath heard, and sheweth Himself wroth. And kicketh exceedingly against Israel.

And He leaveth the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent He had placed among men,

And He giveth His strength to captivity, And His beauty into the hand of an adversary,

And delivereth up to the sword His people, And with His inheritance shewed Himself angry.

His young men hath fire consumed, And His virgins have not been praised.

His priests by the sword have fallen, And their widows weep not.

They have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them,

And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,

And serve their idols, And they are to them for a snare.

And they sacrifice their sons And their daughters to destroyers,

And they shed innocent blood--Blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they have sacrificed to idols of Canaan, And the land is profaned with blood.

And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.

And the anger of Jehovah Is kindled against His people, And He doth abominate His inheritance.

And giveth them into the hand of nations, And those hating them rule over them,

And their enemies oppress them, And they are humbled under their hand.

Their idols are silver and gold, work of man's hands,

A mouth they have, and they speak not, Eyes they have, and they see not,

Ears they have, and they hear not, A nose they have, and they smell not,

Their hands, but they handle not, Their feet, and they walk not;

Nor do they mutter through their throat, Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, Work of the hands of man.