Quotes About Idolatry

They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.

They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not answer; it saves no one from his troubles.

Therefore I declared it to you long ago; I announced it before it came to pass, so that you could not claim, ëMy idol has done this; my carved image and molten god has ordained it.í

who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.

Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it wide. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; you have gazed upon their nakedness.

You went to Molech with oil and multiplied your perfumes. You have sent your envoys a great distance; you have descended even to Sheol itself.

to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,

Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dogís neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pigís blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.

“Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves—to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and rats—will perish together,” declares the LORD.

I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me to burn incense to other gods and to worship the works of their own hands.

This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?

The priests did not ask, ëWhere is the LORD?í The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.

“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ëI will not serve!í Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.

“How can you say, ëI am not defiled; I have not run after the Baalsí? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,

You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ëIt is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.í

say to a tree, ëYou are my father,í and to a stone, ëYou gave me birth.í For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble they beg, ëRise up and save us!í

But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.

“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.

Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.

Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,í” declares the LORD.

From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for—their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.