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Micah 5:13

I will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your own hands.

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ASV

and I will cut off thy graven images and thy pillars out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thy hands;

KJV

Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְהִכְרַתִּ֧יve.hikh.ra.Tiand I will cut offH3772 →
פְסִילֶ֛יךָfe.si.Lei.khaimages yourH6456 →
וּמַצֵּבוֹתֶ֖יךָu.ma.tze.vo.Tei.khaand sacred pillars yourH4676 →
מִקִּרְבֶּ֑ךָmi.kir.Be.chafrom midst yourH7130 →
וְלֹֽא־ve.lo'-and notH3808 →
תִשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֥הtish.ta.cha.Vehyou will bow downH7812 →
ע֖וֹדodagainH5750 →
לְמַעֲשֵׂ֥הle.ma.'a.Sehto [the] work ofH4639 →
יָדֶֽיךָ׃ya.Dei.khahands yourH3027 →

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Hosea 10:2Their hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars.Nahum 1:14The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”Ezekiel 6:9Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.Ezekiel 36:25I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.Zephaniah 1:4“I will stretch out My hand against Judah and against all who dwell in Jerusalem. I will cut off from this place every remnant of Baal, the names of the idolatrous and pagan priests—Hosea 2:16–17In that day,” declares the LORD, “you will call Me ‘my Husband,’ and no longer call Me ‘my Master.’Hosea 14:3Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”Ezekiel 37:23They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.Isaiah 17:7–8In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.Hosea 14:8O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.Isaiah 2:8Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.Zechariah 13:2And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.2 Kings 22:17because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be kindled against this place and will not be quenched.’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.Judges 18:17And the five men who had gone to spy out the land went inside and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, while the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred armed men.

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About Micah

Micah Exhorts the Israelites to Repent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Micah Exhorts the Israelites to Repent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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