Isaiah 31:7

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

Young's Literal Translation

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 fallen hath Asshur by sword, not of the high, Yea, a sword — not of the low, doth consume him, And he hath 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 taketh counsel, and maketh two calves of gold, and saith unto them, 'Enough to you of going up to Jerusalem; lo, thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'

Isaiah 30:22And ye have defiled the covering of Thy graven images of silver, And the ephod of thy molten image of gold, Thou scatterest them as a sickening thing, 'Go out,' thou sayest to it.

Hosea 8:11Because Ephraim did multiply 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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