-“Behold, all of them are false; Their works are worthless, Their molten images are wind and emptiness.
-“I am the LORD/, that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, Nor My praise to graven images.
They will be turned back {and} be utterly put to shame, Who trust in idols, Who say to molten images, “You are our gods.”
Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over; Their images are {consigned} to the beasts and the cattle. The things that you carry are burdensome, A load for the weary {beast.}
Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land: “Is the LORD/ not in Zion? Is her King not within her?” “Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, with foreign idols?”
Every man is stupid, devoid of knowledge; Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols; For his molten images are deceitful, And there is no breath in them.
“Declare and proclaim among the nations. Proclaim it and lift up a standard. Do not conceal {it but} say, ‘Babylon has been captured, Bel has been put to shame, Marduk has been shattered; Her images have been put to shame, her idols have been shattered.’
All mankind is stupid, devoid of knowledge; Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, For his molten images are deceitful, And there is no breath in them.
+‘They transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride, and they made the images of their abominations {and} their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them.
Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are committing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say, ‘The LORD/ does not see us; the LORD/ has forsaken the land.’”
+“You also took your beautiful jewels {made} of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images that you might play the harlot with them.
+“So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
‘Thus says the Lord GOD/, “I will also destroy the idols And make the images cease from Memphis. And there will no longer be a prince in the land of Egypt; And I will put fear in the land of Egypt.
+“Also their gods with their metal images {and} their precious vessels of silver and gold he will take into captivity to Egypt, and he on his part will refrain from {attacking} the king of the North for {some} years.
And now they sin more and more, And make for themselves molten images, Idols skillfully made from their silver, All of them the work of craftsmen. They say of them, “Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves!”
+“You also carried along Sikkuth your king and Kiyyun, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves.
All of her idols will be smashed, All of her earnings will be burned with fire And all of her images I will make desolate, For she collected {them} from a harlot’s earnings, And to the earnings of a harlot they will return.
-“I will cut off your carved images And your {sacred} pillars from among you, So that you will no longer bow down To the work of your hands.
+‘YOU ALSO TOOK ALONG THE TABERNACLE OF/ MOLOCH AND THE STAR OF THE GOD/ ROMPHA/, THE IMAGES WHICH YOU MADE TO WORSHIP/. I ALSO WILL REMOVE YOU BEYOND/ BABYLON/.’
