Isaiah 46:1

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Isaiah 46:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.

2 The gods cower; they crouch together, unable to relieve the burden; but they themselves go into captivity.

3 “Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.

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Isaiah 21:9

Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”

Isaiah 41:6

Each one helps the other and says to his brother, “Be strong!”

Isaiah 41:7

The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who wields the hammer cheers him who strikes the anvil, saying of the welding, “It is good.” He nails it down so it will not be toppled.

Exodus 12:12

On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.

1 Samuel 5:3

When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.

Jeremiah 48:1

Concerning Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo, for it will be devastated. Kiriathaim will be captured and disgraced; the fortress will be shattered and dismantled.

Jeremiah 48:2

There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.

Jeremiah 48:3

A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’

Jeremiah 48:4

Moab will be shattered; her little ones will cry out.

Jeremiah 48:5

For on the ascent to Luhith they weep bitterly as they go, and on the descent to Horonaim cries of distress resound over the destruction:

Jeremiah 48:6

‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’

Jeremiah 48:7

Because you trust in your works and treasures, you too will be captured, and Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials.

Jeremiah 48:8

The destroyer will move against every city, and not one town will escape. The valley will also be ruined, and the high plain will be destroyed, as the LORD has said.

Jeremiah 48:9

Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them.

Jeremiah 48:10

Cursed is the one who is remiss in doing the work of the LORD, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from bloodshed.

Jeremiah 48:11

Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.

Jeremiah 48:12

Therefore behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will send to him wanderers, who will pour him out. They will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.

Jeremiah 48:13

Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed when they trusted in Bethel.

Jeremiah 48:14

How can you say, ‘We are warriors, mighty men ready for battle’?

Jeremiah 48:15

Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

Jeremiah 48:16

Moab’s calamity is at hand, and his affliction is rushing swiftly.

Jeremiah 48:17

Mourn for him, all you who surround him, everyone who knows his name; tell how the mighty scepter is shattered— the glorious staff!

Jeremiah 48:18

Come down from your glory; sit on parched ground, O daughter dwelling in Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you; he has destroyed your fortresses.

Jeremiah 48:19

Stand by the road and watch, O dweller of Aroer! Ask the man fleeing or the woman escaping, ‘What has happened?’

Jeremiah 48:20

Moab is put to shame, for it has been shattered. Wail and cry out! Declare by the Arnon that Moab is destroyed.

Jeremiah 48:21

Judgment has come upon the high plain— upon Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,

Jeremiah 48:22

upon Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,

Jeremiah 48:23

upon Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon,

Jeremiah 48:24

upon Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the towns of Moab, those far and near.

Jeremiah 48:25

The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm is broken,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 50:2

“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’

Jeremiah 51:44

I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.

Jeremiah 51:47

Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.

Jeremiah 51:52

“Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.

Isaiah 2:20

In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold— the idols they made to worship.

Jeremiah 10:5

Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and neither can they do any good.”