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Isaiah 2:18
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16 aUpon all the ships of Tarshish,
And upon all the beautiful sloops. 
17 The1 loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low;
The Lord alone will be exalted in that day, 
18 But the idols1 He shall utterly abolish. 
19 They shall go into the aholes of the rocks,
And into the caves of the1 earth,
bFrom the terror of the Lord
And the glory of His majesty,
When He arises cto shake the earth mightily. 
20 In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver
And his idols of gold,
Which they made, each for himself to worship,
To the moles and bats,
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks,
And into the crags of the rugged rocks,
From the terror of the Lord
And the glory of His majesty,
When He arises to shake the earth mightily.
22 aSever1 yourselves from such a man,
Whose bbreath is in his nostrils;
For1 of what account is he? 
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Isaiah 2:18

And the idols - Note, Isaiah 2:8.

Abolish - Hebrew, ' Cause to pass away or disappear.' He shall entirely cause their worship to cease. This prediction was most remarkably fulfilled. Before the captivity at Babylon, the Jews were exceedingly prone to idolatry. It is a remarkable fact that no such propensity was ever evinced "after" that. In their own land they were entirely free from it; and scattered as they have been into all lands, they have in every age since kept clear from idolatry. Not an instance, probably, has been known of their relapsing into this sin; and no temptation, or torture, has been sufficient to induce them to bow down and worship an idol. This is one of the few instances that have occurred where affliction and punishment have "completely" answered their design.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Isaiah 2:18:

Isaiah 9:10
Hosea 2:17
Hosea 14:8
Amos 5:26
Habakkuk 1:11
Zechariah 13:2

 

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