Isaiah 31:7

For in that day each despises His idols of silver, and his idols of gold, || That your hands made to you—a sin.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

In Context

6Turn back to Him from whom sons of Israel || Have deepened apostasy.

8And Asshur has fallen by sword, not of the high, || Indeed, a sword—not of the low, consumes him, || And he has fled for himself from the face of a sword, || And his young men become tributary.

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Cross References

1 Kings 12:28And the king takes counsel, and makes two calves of gold, and says to them, “Enough of you from going up to Jerusalem; behold, your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

Isaiah 30:22And you have defiled the covering of Your carved images of silver, || And the ephod of your molten image of gold, || You scatter them as a sickening thing, “Go out,” you say to it.

Hosea 8:11Because Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, || They have been to him altars to sin.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 31:7-9

A Call to Repentance; Deliverance of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 720.) 6 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted. 7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin. 8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited. 9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for… Read the whole commentary →

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