Habakkuk 2:18 Cross References - JuliaSmith

¹⁸ What profited the carved image that he forming it carved it? the molten image and he teaching falsehood, that the former of his forming trusted upon it to make nothings being dumb?

⁴ Their images are silver and gold, the work of man's hands. ⁵ A mouth to them, and they shall not speak: eyes to them, and they will not see: ⁶ Ears to them, and they shall not hear: a nose to them, and they shall not smell: ⁷ Their hands, and they will not feel: their feet, and they shall not go: they shall not murmur in their throat ⁸ They making them shall be as they; all that trusted in them.

¹⁵ The images of the nation are silver and gold, the work of man's hands. ¹⁶ A mouth to them, and they shall not speak; eyes to them, and they shall not see; ¹⁷ Ears to them, and they shall not hear; also there is no spirit in their mouth. ¹⁸ They making them shall be as they: every one who trusted in them.

³¹ And the strong was for tow, and his work for a spark, and they two were burnt together, and none quenching.

³⁸ And it will be he worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him with the sword; and they escaped to the land of Ararat; and Esar-Haddon his son will reign in his stead.

¹⁷ They were turned back, they will be ashamed with shame, trusting in the carved image, saying to the molten image, Thou our God.

⁹ They forming a carved image all of them emptiness; and their delights shall not profit, and they are their witnesses; they will not see and they will not know, so that they shall be ashamed. ¹⁰ Who formed a god and a carved molten image, profiting for nothing?

¹⁴ To cut down for him cedars, and he will take the fir tree and the oak, and he will strengthen for himself among the trees of the forest: he planted an ash and the rain will cause to grow. ¹⁵ And it was for a man to burn: and he will take from them and he will be warmed; also he will kindle, and bake bread; also he will make a god, and he will worship; he made it a carved image, and he will fall down to them. ¹⁶ Half of it he burnt in the fire; upon half of it he will eat flesh; he will roast roast, and he will be satisfied: also he will be warm, and he will say, Aha, I was warm, I saw the light ¹⁷ And its remainder he made for a god, for his carved image: he will fall down to it, and he will worship and pray to it, and say, Deliver me, for thou my god. ¹⁸ They will not know, and they will not discern: he spread over their eyes from seeing; their heart from considering. ¹⁹ And none will set to his heart; and not knowledge, and not understanding to say, Half of it I burnt in the fire; and also I baked bread upon its coals; I will roast flesh and eat: and its remainder shall I make for an abomination? shall I fall down to a trunk of wood? ²⁰ He fed upon ashes: a deceived heart turned him away, and he shall not deliver his soul, and he shall not say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

¹⁶ They were ashamed and also disgraced, all of them: together they went in shame the workmen of images.

²⁰ Assemble ye together and come; draw ye near together, the escaped of the nations: they knew not lifting up the wood of their carved image, and praying to God he will not save.

¹ Bel bent; Nebo bowed down; their images were for the beast and for the cattle: your gifts were carried; a lifting up to the weary. ² They bowed down, they bent together; they were not able to deliver the burden and their soul went into captivity.

⁶ Squandering gold out of the bag and they will weigh silver in the balance, they will hire a founder, and he will make it a god: they will fall down, they will also worship ⁷ They will lift him up upon the shoulder, they will carry him, they will set him down in his place and he will stand; from his place he shall not depart: also he will cry out to him and he will not answer; he will not save him from his straits ⁸ Remember this, shew yourselves men: turn back, ye transgressing, upon the heart

²⁷ Saying to the wood, Thou my father; and to the stone, Thou didst bring me forth: for they turned to me the back of the neck and not their face: and in the time of their evil they will say, Arise, and save us. ²⁸ And where thy gods which thou didst make to thee? they will arise, if they shall save thee in the time of thine evil: for from the numbering of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah.

³ For the laws of the peoples, this vanity: for they cut down a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. ⁴ With gold and with silver they will beautify; with nails and with hammers they will make firm and it will not move. ⁵ They are of turned work, as the palm tree, and they shall not speak; being lifted up they shall be lifted up, for they shall not mount up. Ye shall not be afraid of them, for they will not do evil, and also doing good is not with them.

⁸ And in one they will become brutish, and they will be foolish: the tree itself a correction of vanities.

¹⁴ Every man was brutish from knowledge: every founder was ashamed from his carved image; for his molten image a falsehood, and no spirit in them. ¹⁵ They are vanity, the work of delusions: in the time of their reviewing they shall perish.

² Announce ye in the nations, and cause to be heard, and lift up a signal; cause to be heard, ye shall not hide: say, Babel was taken, Bel was ashamed, Merodach was broken; her images were ashamed, her blocks were broken.

⁸ They watching the vanities of falsehood will forsake their kindness.

² For the family gods spake vanity, and the diviners saw falsehood, and they will speak dreams of falsehood they will comfort in vain: for this, they removed as a flock, they were afflicted for there was no shepherd.

²³ And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of flying things, and of creeping things, and of quadrupeds. ²⁴ Wherefore God delivered them in the eager desire of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies in themselves: ²⁵ Who changed the truth of God into a falsehood, and reverenced and served the creation above him creating, who is praised forever. Amen.

²¹ Therefore what fruit had ye then of what ye are now ashamed? for the end of these, death.

² Ye know that ye were the nations, to dumb idols, as ye were led, being carried away.

⁹ Whose arrival is according to the energy of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood, ¹⁰ And in all deceit of iniquity in the lost; because they received not the love of the truth, for them to be saved. ¹¹ And for this, God shall send them the energy of error, for them to believe in falsehood:

¹ And the Spirit says expressly, that in later times some shall be removed from the faith, holding to deceitful spirits, and doctrines of evil spirits; ² In the hypocrisy of speaking falsely; burned with a hot iron in their own consciousness;

¹¹ And I saw another wild beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. ¹² And all the powers of the first beast he does before him, and he makes the earth and all dwelling in it that they should worship the first wild beast, whose death-blow was healed. ¹³ And he does great signs, that also he might make fire come down from heaven to the earth before men, ¹⁴ And he deceives them dwelling upon earth by the signs which were given him to do before the wild beast; saying to them dwelling upon earth, to make an image to the wild beast, who has the blow of the sword, and he lived. ¹⁵ And it was given him to give spirit to the image of the wild beast, that the image of the wild beast might speak, and might make as many as should not worship the image of the wild beast that they be killed.

²⁰ And the wild beast was seized, and with him the false prophet having done signs before him, with which he deceived them having received the stamp of the wild beast, and them worshipping his image. Living, were they two cast into the lake of fire burning with sulphur.