11Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
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For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.
They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)The prophet Isaiah, when he prophesied of the captivity in Babylon, added warnings against idolatry and largely exposed the sottishness of idolaters, not only because the temptations in Babylon would be in danger of drawing the Jews there to idolatry, but because the afflictions in Babylon were designed to cure them of their idolatry. Thus the prophet Jeremiah here arms people against the idolatro…
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