Habakkuk 2:19

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Habakkuk 2:17–20 · Berean Standard Bible

17 For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your bloodshed against men and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.

18 What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it— or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.

19 Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.”

20 But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.

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1 Kings 18:28

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1 Kings 18:29

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they have ears, but cannot hear; nor is there breath in their mouths.