Habakkuk 2:19
Woe to him who says to wood, “Awaken,” to the silent stone, “Arise.” Is it able to teach? Behold, it has been entirely covered with gold and silver; and there is no spirit at all in its inner workings.
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20But the Lord is in his holy temple. May all the earth be silent before his face.
Cross References
Psalms 97:7Let the sea be moved and all its fullness, the whole world and all who dwell in it.
Isaiah 40:19Should the workman cast a statue? Or has the goldsmith formed it with gold, or the silversmith with plates of silver?
Isaiah 46:6You take gold from a bag, and you weigh silver on a scale, so as to hire a goldsmith to make a god. And they fall prostrate and adore.
Jeremiah 10:4He has adorned it with silver and gold. He has put it together with nail and hammer, so that it will not fall apart.
Jeremiah 10:14Every man has become a fool concerning knowledge; every artist has been confounded by his graven image. For what he has formed is false, and there is no spirit in these things.
Daniel 3:1King Nebuchadnezzar made a statue of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up in the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 2:16-20
Judgment Predicted. ( b. c. 600.) 15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! 16 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the Lord 's right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory. 17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the… Read the whole commentary →