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Micah 1:7

All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.

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ASV

And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols will I lay desolate; for of the hire of a harlot hath she gathered them, and unto the hire of a harlot shall they return.

KJV

And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְכָל־ve.kholand allH3605 →
פְּסִילֶ֣יהָpe.si.Lei.haimages itsH6456 →
יֻכַּ֗תּוּyu.Ka.tuthey will be crushedH3807 →
וְכָל־ve.kholand allH3605 →
אֶתְנַנֶּ֙יהָ֙'et.na.Nei.hahire<s> itsH868 →
יִשָּׂרְפ֣וּyi.sa.re.Futhey will be burnedH8313 →
בָאֵ֔שׁva.'Eshwith <the> fireH784 →
וְכָל־ve.kholand allH3605 →
עֲצַבֶּ֖יהָ'a.tza.Bei.haidols itsH6091 →
אָשִׂ֣ים'a.SimI will makeH7760 →
שְׁמָמָ֑הshe.ma.Maha wasteH8077 →
כִּ֠יkiforH3588 →
מֵאֶתְנַ֤ןme.'et.Nanfrom [the] hire ofH868 →
זוֹנָה֙zo.Naha prostituteH2181 →
קִבָּ֔צָהki.Ba.tzahit gathered [them]H6908 →
וְעַד־ve.'ad-and toH5704 →
אֶתְנַ֥ן'et.Nan[the] hire ofH868 →
זוֹנָ֖הzo.Naha prostituteH2181 →
יָשֽׁוּבוּ׃ya.Shu.vuthey will returnH7725 →

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Deuteronomy 23:18You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.1 Samuel 5:4But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD, with his head and his hands broken off and lying on the threshold. Only the torso remained.Hosea 2:12I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.Ezekiel 6:6Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.Revelation 18:3All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”Hosea 8:6For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.Hosea 10:5–6The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn with its idolatrous priests— those who rejoiced in its glory— for it has been taken from them into exile.2 Chronicles 31:1When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.Deuteronomy 9:21And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.Revelation 18:9Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.Joel 3:3They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.Jeremiah 44:17–18Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.2 Kings 23:14–15He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.Revelation 18:12–13cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; of all kinds of citron wood and every article of ivory, precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble;Leviticus 26:30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.2 Chronicles 34:6–7Josiah did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them.Hosea 2:5For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’Isaiah 27:9Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.

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