Hosea 13:2 现今他们罪上加罪，用银子为自己铸造偶像，就是照自己的聪明制造，都是匠人的工作。有人论说，献祭的人可以向牛犊亲嘴。

13:2 MSG

逐节对照

新标点和合本 - 现今他们罪上加罪，用银子为自己铸造偶像，就是照自己的聪明制造，都是匠人的工作。有人论说，献祭的人可以向牛犊亲嘴。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 如今他们罪上加罪，为自己铸造偶像，凭自己的聪明用银子造偶像，全都是匠人所制的。论到它，有话说：献祭的人都要亲吻牛犊。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 如今他们罪上加罪，为自己铸造偶像，凭自己的聪明用银子造偶像，全都是匠人所制的。论到它，有话说：献祭的人都要亲吻牛犊。
当代译本 - 如今他们作恶日甚，为自己铸造神像，用银子精工制作偶像，但这统统不过是匠人之作。人们议论他们说： “那些献祭的人竟亲吻牛犊偶像！”
圣经新译本 - 现在他们犯罪越来越多，为自己做铸像，按着自己的技巧，用自己的银子做偶像；这些都是匠人的手工。他们论到这些说：“向偶像献祭的人，可以亲吻牛犊。”
现代标点和合本 - 现今他们罪上加罪，用银子为自己铸造偶像，就是照自己的聪明制造，都是匠人的工作。有人论说： “献祭的人可以向牛犊亲嘴。”
和合本（拼音版） - 现今他们罪上加罪，用银子为自己铸造偶像，就是照自己的聪明制造，都是匠人的工作。有人论说，献祭的人可以向牛犊亲嘴。
New International Version - Now they sin more and more; they make idols for themselves from their silver, cleverly fashioned images, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of these people, “They offer human sacrifices! They kiss calf-idols!”
New International Reader's Version - Now they sin more and more. They use their silver to make statues of gods for themselves. The statues come from their own clever ideas. Skilled workers make all of them. The people pray to these gods. They offer human sacrifices to them. They kiss the gods that look like calves.
English Standard Version - And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of them, “Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!”
New Living Translation - Now they continue to sin by making silver idols, images shaped skillfully with human hands. “Sacrifice to these,” they cry, “and kiss the calf idols!”
Christian Standard Bible - Now they continue to sin and make themselves a cast image, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say about them, “Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves.”
New American Standard Bible - And now they sin more and more, And make for themselves cast metal images, Idols skillfully made from their silver, All of them the work of craftsmen. They say of them, “Let the people who sacrifice kiss the calves!”
New King James Version - Now they sin more and more, And have made for themselves molded images, Idols of their silver, according to their skill; All of it is the work of craftsmen. They say of them, “Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves!”
Amplified Bible - And now they sin more and more, And make for themselves molten images, Idols skillfully made from their silver [as it pleased them], All of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of these [very works of their hands], “Let those who sacrifice kiss and show respect to the calves [as if they were living gods]!”
American Standard Version - And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
King James Version - And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
New English Translation - Even now they persist in sin! They make metal images for themselves, idols that they skillfully fashion from their own silver; all of them are nothing but the work of craftsmen! There is a saying about them: “Those who sacrifice to the calf idol are calf kissers!”
World English Bible - Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’
新標點和合本 - 現今他們罪上加罪，用銀子為自己鑄造偶像，就是照自己的聰明製造，都是匠人的工作。有人論說，獻祭的人可以向牛犢親嘴。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 如今他們罪上加罪，為自己鑄造偶像，憑自己的聰明用銀子造偶像，全都是匠人所製的。論到它，有話說：獻祭的人都要親吻牛犢。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 如今他們罪上加罪，為自己鑄造偶像，憑自己的聰明用銀子造偶像，全都是匠人所製的。論到它，有話說：獻祭的人都要親吻牛犢。
當代譯本 - 如今他們作惡日甚，為自己鑄造神像，用銀子精工製作偶像，但這統統不過是匠人之作。人們議論他們說：「那些獻祭的人竟親吻牛犢偶像！」
聖經新譯本 - 現在他們犯罪越來越多，為自己做鑄像，按著自己的技巧，用自己的銀子做偶像；這些都是匠人的手工。他們論到這些說：“向偶像獻祭的人，可以親吻牛犢。”
呂振中譯本 - 如今呢、他們罪越犯越多了，他們為自己造了鑄像，按自己的技巧聰明用他們的銀子造偶像，都是匠人的作品；就說：『向這些偶像獻祭吧！』嘿，人跟牛犢親嘴！
現代標點和合本 - 現今他們罪上加罪，用銀子為自己鑄造偶像，就是照自己的聰明製造，都是匠人的工作。有人論說：「獻祭的人可以向牛犢親嘴。」
文理和合譯本 - 今干罪愈甚、以銀鑄像、循其聰明造偶、悉為工匠所製、指之而言曰、任獻祭者與犢接吻、
文理委辦譯本 - 今為惡益甚、匠人以巧捷之技、鎔銀鑄像、祭司命眾、敬彼犢像、接吻以為禮、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 今犯罪益甚、以銀鑄神像、用機巧作偶像、悉為匠人所造、人皆曰獻祭之人、始可與犢犢見八章五節小註接吻、人皆曰獻祭之人始可與犢接吻或作人論彼曰彼以人獻祭反與犢接吻又作祭司謂眾曰以人獻祭者始可與犢接吻
Nueva Versión Internacional - Sin embargo, siguen pecando, pues se fabrican, según su ingenio, imágenes de fundición e ídolos de plata que no son más que obra de artesanos. De ellos se dice: «Ofrecen sacrificios humanos y besan ídolos en forma de becerros».
현대인의 성경 - 그런데도 그 백성은 더 많이 범죄하고 있다. 그들은 은으로 자기들의 우상을 만들고 사람의 손과 기술로 만든 것을 보고 “제사를 지내는 사람들은 송아지에 입을 맞춰라” 하고 말한다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Теперь они грешат все больше и больше. Они делают для себя идолов из своего серебра, искусно отлитые истуканы, все это – изделия ремесленников. Люди, приносящие жертвы, говорят к тельцам, целуют их.
Восточный перевод - Теперь они грешат всё больше и больше: они делают для себя идолов из своего серебра, мастерски отлитые истуканы; всё это – изделия ремесленников. Они говорят людям: «Приносите жертвы и целуйте идолов-тельцов».
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Теперь они грешат всё больше и больше: они делают для себя идолов из своего серебра, мастерски отлитые истуканы; всё это – изделия ремесленников. Они говорят людям: «Приносите жертвы и целуйте идолов-тельцов».
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Теперь они грешат всё больше и больше: они делают для себя идолов из своего серебра, мастерски отлитые истуканы; всё это – изделия ремесленников. Они говорят людям: «Приносите жертвы и целуйте идолов-тельцов».
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Et maintenant, ╵voilà ces gens ╵qui pèchent davantage, faisant de leur argent ╵des idoles fondues, des statues façonnées ╵avec habileté : ouvrages d’artisans ╵que tout cela ! On dit à leur propos : ils offrent des humains ╵en sacrifice et ils font des baisers aux veaux !
リビングバイブル - 今や民はますます不従順になっています。銀を溶かして鋳型に入れ、人の手で巧みに偶像を作っています。「これにいけにえをささげろ」と言い、子牛の像に口づけしているのです。
Nova Versão Internacional - Agora eles pecam cada vez mais; com sua prata fazem ídolos de metal para si, imagens modeladas com muita inteligência, todas elas obras de artesãos. Dizem desse povo: “Eles oferecem sacrifício humano e beijam os ídolos feitos em forma de bezerro”.
Hoffnung für alle - Trotzdem haben sie noch nicht genug, sondern treiben es nur noch schlimmer: Aus Silber gießen sie Götterfiguren, wie es ihnen gefällt. Sie sagen: ›Wer Gott opfern will, muss die Stierfiguren küssen!‹ Ihre Götter sind Menschenwerk, von Handwerkern hergestellt.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Bây giờ họ càng phạm tội khi tạo những tượng bạc, những hình tượng khéo léo tạo nên bởi bàn tay con người. Họ bảo nhau: “Hãy dâng tế lễ cho các thần tượng, và hôn tượng bò con này!”
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - บัดนี้ เขายิ่งทำบาปมากขึ้น เขาใช้เงินทำรูปเคารพเพื่อตัวเขาเอง เป็นเทวรูปที่ปั้นแต่งขึ้นอย่างชาญฉลาด ทั้งหมดล้วนแล้วแต่เป็นผลงานของช่างฝีมือ ผู้คนกล่าวถึงคนเหล่านี้ว่า “พวกเขาใช้มนุษย์เป็นเครื่องบูชา และจูบ เทวรูปลูกวัว”
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - และบัดนี้พวกเขาทำบาปมากยิ่งขึ้น พวกเขาใช้เครื่องเงินหล่อรูปเคารพ และรูปบูชาให้แก่ตนเอง ด้วยความชำนาญ ล้วนเป็นงานของช่างฝีมือ มีการพูดถึงพวกเขาว่า “คนเหล่านั้นถวายมนุษย์เป็นเครื่องสักการะ และจูบรูปเคารพลูกโค”

交叉引用

Hosea 8:4 - “They crown kings, but without asking me. They set up princes but don’t let me in on it. Instead, they make idols, using silver and gold, idols that will be their ruin. Throw that gold calf-god on the trash heap, Samaria! I’m seething with anger against that rubbish! How long before they shape up? And they’re Israelites! A sculptor made that thing— it’s not God. That Samaritan calf will be broken to bits. Look at them! Planting wind-seeds, they’ll harvest tornadoes. Wheat with no head produces no flour. And even if it did, strangers would gulp it down. Israel is swallowed up and spit out. Among the pagans they’re a piece of junk. They trotted off to Assyria: Why, even wild donkeys stick to their own kind, but donkey-Ephraim goes out and pays to get lovers. Now, because of their whoring life among the pagans, I’m going to gather them together and confront them. They’re going to reap the consequences soon, feel what it’s like to be oppressed by the big king.
Romans 2:5 - You’re not getting by with anything. Every refusal and avoidance of God adds fuel to the fire. The day is coming when it’s going to blaze hot and high, God’s fiery and righteous judgment. Make no mistake: In the end you get what’s coming to you—Real Life for those who work on God’s side, but to those who insist on getting their own way and take the path of least resistance, Fire!
Numbers 32:14 - “And now here you are, just one more mob of sinners stepping up to replace your ancestors, throwing fuel on the already blazing anger of God against Israel. If you won’t follow him, he’ll do it again. He’ll dump them in the desert and the disaster will be all your fault.”
Isaiah 30:1 - “Doom, rebel children!” God’s Decree. “You make plans, but not mine. You make deals, but not in my Spirit. You pile sin on sin, one sin on top of another, Going off to Egypt without so much as asking me, Running off to Pharaoh for protection, expecting to hide out in Egypt. Well, some protection Pharaoh will be! Some hideout, Egypt! They look big and important, true, with officials strategically established in Zoan in the north and Hanes in the south, but there’s nothing to them. Anyone stupid enough to trust them will end up looking stupid— All show, no substance, an embarrassing farce.”
Hosea 10:1 - Israel was once a lush vine, bountiful in grapes. The more lavish the harvest, the more promiscuous the worship. The more money they got, the more they squandered on gods-in-their-own-image. Their sweet smiles are sheer lies. They’re guilty as sin. God will smash their worship shrines, pulverize their god-images.
Isaiah 46:8 - “Think about this. Wrap your minds around it. This is serious business, rebels. Take it to heart. Remember your history, your long and rich history. I am God, the only God you’ve had or ever will have— incomparable, irreplaceable— From the very beginning telling you what the ending will be, All along letting you in on what is going to happen, Assuring you, ‘I’m in this for the long haul, I’ll do exactly what I set out to do,’ Calling that eagle, Cyrus, out of the east, from a far country the man I chose to help me. I’ve said it, and I’ll most certainly do it. I’ve planned it, so it’s as good as done.
1 Samuel 10:1 - Then Samuel took a flask of oil, poured it on Saul’s head, and kissed him. He said, “Do you see what this means? God has anointed you prince over his people. “This sign will confirm God’s anointing of you as prince over his inheritance: After you leave me today, as you get closer to your home country of Benjamin, you’ll meet two men near Rachel’s Tomb. They’ll say, ‘The donkeys you went to look for are found. Your father has forgotten about the donkeys and is worried about you, wringing his hands—quite beside himself!’
Isaiah 1:5 - “Why bother even trying to do anything with you when you just keep to your bullheaded ways? You keep beating your heads against brick walls. Everything within you protests against you. From the bottom of your feet to the top of your head, nothing’s working right. Wounds and bruises and running sores— untended, unwashed, unbandaged. Your country is laid waste, your cities burned down. Your land is destroyed by outsiders while you watch, reduced to rubble by barbarians. Daughter Zion is deserted— like a tumbledown shack on a dead-end street, Like a tarpaper shanty on the wrong side of the tracks, like a sinking ship abandoned by the rats. If God-of-the-Angel-Armies hadn’t left us a few survivors, we’d be as desolate as Sodom, doomed just like Gomorrah.
Habakkuk 2:18 - “What’s the use of a carved god so skillfully carved by its sculptor? What good is a fancy cast god when all it tells is lies? What sense does it make to be a pious god-maker who makes gods that can’t even talk? Who do you think you are— saying to a stick of wood, ‘Wake up,’ Or to a dumb stone, ‘Get up’? Can they teach you anything about anything? There’s nothing to them but surface. There’s nothing on the inside.
Romans 1:24 - So God said, in effect, “If that’s what you want, that’s what you get.” It wasn’t long before they were living in a pigpen, smeared with filth, filthy inside and out. And all this because they traded the true God for a fake god, and worshiped the god they made instead of the God who made them—the God we bless, the God who blesses us. Oh, yes!
Isaiah 44:18 - Pretty stupid, wouldn’t you say? Don’t they have eyes in their heads? Are their brains working at all? Doesn’t it occur to them to say, “Half of this tree I used for firewood: I baked bread, roasted meat, and enjoyed a good meal. And now I’ve used the rest to make a repulsive no-god. Here I am praying to a stick of wood!”
Isaiah 44:20 - This lover of emptiness, of nothing, is so out of touch with reality, so far gone, that he can’t even look at what he’s doing, can’t even look at the no-god stick of wood in his hand and say, “This is crazy.” * * *

逐节对照

交叉引用

新标点和合本 - 现今他们罪上加罪，用银子为自己铸造偶像，就是照自己的聪明制造，都是匠人的工作。有人论说，献祭的人可以向牛犊亲嘴。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 如今他们罪上加罪，为自己铸造偶像，凭自己的聪明用银子造偶像，全都是匠人所制的。论到它，有话说：献祭的人都要亲吻牛犊。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 如今他们罪上加罪，为自己铸造偶像，凭自己的聪明用银子造偶像，全都是匠人所制的。论到它，有话说：献祭的人都要亲吻牛犊。
当代译本 - 如今他们作恶日甚，为自己铸造神像，用银子精工制作偶像，但这统统不过是匠人之作。人们议论他们说： “那些献祭的人竟亲吻牛犊偶像！”
圣经新译本 - 现在他们犯罪越来越多，为自己做铸像，按着自己的技巧，用自己的银子做偶像；这些都是匠人的手工。他们论到这些说：“向偶像献祭的人，可以亲吻牛犊。”
现代标点和合本 - 现今他们罪上加罪，用银子为自己铸造偶像，就是照自己的聪明制造，都是匠人的工作。有人论说： “献祭的人可以向牛犊亲嘴。”
和合本（拼音版） - 现今他们罪上加罪，用银子为自己铸造偶像，就是照自己的聪明制造，都是匠人的工作。有人论说，献祭的人可以向牛犊亲嘴。
New International Version - Now they sin more and more; they make idols for themselves from their silver, cleverly fashioned images, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of these people, “They offer human sacrifices! They kiss calf-idols!”
New International Reader's Version - Now they sin more and more. They use their silver to make statues of gods for themselves. The statues come from their own clever ideas. Skilled workers make all of them. The people pray to these gods. They offer human sacrifices to them. They kiss the gods that look like calves.
English Standard Version - And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of them, “Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!”
New Living Translation - Now they continue to sin by making silver idols, images shaped skillfully with human hands. “Sacrifice to these,” they cry, “and kiss the calf idols!”
Christian Standard Bible - Now they continue to sin and make themselves a cast image, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say about them, “Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves.”
New American Standard Bible - And now they sin more and more, And make for themselves cast metal images, Idols skillfully made from their silver, All of them the work of craftsmen. They say of them, “Let the people who sacrifice kiss the calves!”
New King James Version - Now they sin more and more, And have made for themselves molded images, Idols of their silver, according to their skill; All of it is the work of craftsmen. They say of them, “Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves!”
Amplified Bible - And now they sin more and more, And make for themselves molten images, Idols skillfully made from their silver [as it pleased them], All of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of these [very works of their hands], “Let those who sacrifice kiss and show respect to the calves [as if they were living gods]!”
American Standard Version - And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
King James Version - And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
New English Translation - Even now they persist in sin! They make metal images for themselves, idols that they skillfully fashion from their own silver; all of them are nothing but the work of craftsmen! There is a saying about them: “Those who sacrifice to the calf idol are calf kissers!”
World English Bible - Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’
新標點和合本 - 現今他們罪上加罪，用銀子為自己鑄造偶像，就是照自己的聰明製造，都是匠人的工作。有人論說，獻祭的人可以向牛犢親嘴。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 如今他們罪上加罪，為自己鑄造偶像，憑自己的聰明用銀子造偶像，全都是匠人所製的。論到它，有話說：獻祭的人都要親吻牛犢。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 如今他們罪上加罪，為自己鑄造偶像，憑自己的聰明用銀子造偶像，全都是匠人所製的。論到它，有話說：獻祭的人都要親吻牛犢。
當代譯本 - 如今他們作惡日甚，為自己鑄造神像，用銀子精工製作偶像，但這統統不過是匠人之作。人們議論他們說：「那些獻祭的人竟親吻牛犢偶像！」
聖經新譯本 - 現在他們犯罪越來越多，為自己做鑄像，按著自己的技巧，用自己的銀子做偶像；這些都是匠人的手工。他們論到這些說：“向偶像獻祭的人，可以親吻牛犢。”
呂振中譯本 - 如今呢、他們罪越犯越多了，他們為自己造了鑄像，按自己的技巧聰明用他們的銀子造偶像，都是匠人的作品；就說：『向這些偶像獻祭吧！』嘿，人跟牛犢親嘴！
現代標點和合本 - 現今他們罪上加罪，用銀子為自己鑄造偶像，就是照自己的聰明製造，都是匠人的工作。有人論說：「獻祭的人可以向牛犢親嘴。」
文理和合譯本 - 今干罪愈甚、以銀鑄像、循其聰明造偶、悉為工匠所製、指之而言曰、任獻祭者與犢接吻、
文理委辦譯本 - 今為惡益甚、匠人以巧捷之技、鎔銀鑄像、祭司命眾、敬彼犢像、接吻以為禮、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 今犯罪益甚、以銀鑄神像、用機巧作偶像、悉為匠人所造、人皆曰獻祭之人、始可與犢犢見八章五節小註接吻、人皆曰獻祭之人始可與犢接吻或作人論彼曰彼以人獻祭反與犢接吻又作祭司謂眾曰以人獻祭者始可與犢接吻
Nueva Versión Internacional - Sin embargo, siguen pecando, pues se fabrican, según su ingenio, imágenes de fundición e ídolos de plata que no son más que obra de artesanos. De ellos se dice: «Ofrecen sacrificios humanos y besan ídolos en forma de becerros».
현대인의 성경 - 그런데도 그 백성은 더 많이 범죄하고 있다. 그들은 은으로 자기들의 우상을 만들고 사람의 손과 기술로 만든 것을 보고 “제사를 지내는 사람들은 송아지에 입을 맞춰라” 하고 말한다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Теперь они грешат все больше и больше. Они делают для себя идолов из своего серебра, искусно отлитые истуканы, все это – изделия ремесленников. Люди, приносящие жертвы, говорят к тельцам, целуют их.
Восточный перевод - Теперь они грешат всё больше и больше: они делают для себя идолов из своего серебра, мастерски отлитые истуканы; всё это – изделия ремесленников. Они говорят людям: «Приносите жертвы и целуйте идолов-тельцов».
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Теперь они грешат всё больше и больше: они делают для себя идолов из своего серебра, мастерски отлитые истуканы; всё это – изделия ремесленников. Они говорят людям: «Приносите жертвы и целуйте идолов-тельцов».
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Теперь они грешат всё больше и больше: они делают для себя идолов из своего серебра, мастерски отлитые истуканы; всё это – изделия ремесленников. Они говорят людям: «Приносите жертвы и целуйте идолов-тельцов».
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Et maintenant, ╵voilà ces gens ╵qui pèchent davantage, faisant de leur argent ╵des idoles fondues, des statues façonnées ╵avec habileté : ouvrages d’artisans ╵que tout cela ! On dit à leur propos : ils offrent des humains ╵en sacrifice et ils font des baisers aux veaux !
リビングバイブル - 今や民はますます不従順になっています。銀を溶かして鋳型に入れ、人の手で巧みに偶像を作っています。「これにいけにえをささげろ」と言い、子牛の像に口づけしているのです。
Nova Versão Internacional - Agora eles pecam cada vez mais; com sua prata fazem ídolos de metal para si, imagens modeladas com muita inteligência, todas elas obras de artesãos. Dizem desse povo: “Eles oferecem sacrifício humano e beijam os ídolos feitos em forma de bezerro”.
Hoffnung für alle - Trotzdem haben sie noch nicht genug, sondern treiben es nur noch schlimmer: Aus Silber gießen sie Götterfiguren, wie es ihnen gefällt. Sie sagen: ›Wer Gott opfern will, muss die Stierfiguren küssen!‹ Ihre Götter sind Menschenwerk, von Handwerkern hergestellt.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Bây giờ họ càng phạm tội khi tạo những tượng bạc, những hình tượng khéo léo tạo nên bởi bàn tay con người. Họ bảo nhau: “Hãy dâng tế lễ cho các thần tượng, và hôn tượng bò con này!”
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - บัดนี้ เขายิ่งทำบาปมากขึ้น เขาใช้เงินทำรูปเคารพเพื่อตัวเขาเอง เป็นเทวรูปที่ปั้นแต่งขึ้นอย่างชาญฉลาด ทั้งหมดล้วนแล้วแต่เป็นผลงานของช่างฝีมือ ผู้คนกล่าวถึงคนเหล่านี้ว่า “พวกเขาใช้มนุษย์เป็นเครื่องบูชา และจูบ เทวรูปลูกวัว”
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - และบัดนี้พวกเขาทำบาปมากยิ่งขึ้น พวกเขาใช้เครื่องเงินหล่อรูปเคารพ และรูปบูชาให้แก่ตนเอง ด้วยความชำนาญ ล้วนเป็นงานของช่างฝีมือ มีการพูดถึงพวกเขาว่า “คนเหล่านั้นถวายมนุษย์เป็นเครื่องสักการะ และจูบรูปเคารพลูกโค”

Hosea 8:4 - “They crown kings, but without asking me. They set up princes but don’t let me in on it. Instead, they make idols, using silver and gold, idols that will be their ruin. Throw that gold calf-god on the trash heap, Samaria! I’m seething with anger against that rubbish! How long before they shape up? And they’re Israelites! A sculptor made that thing— it’s not God. That Samaritan calf will be broken to bits. Look at them! Planting wind-seeds, they’ll harvest tornadoes. Wheat with no head produces no flour. And even if it did, strangers would gulp it down. Israel is swallowed up and spit out. Among the pagans they’re a piece of junk. They trotted off to Assyria: Why, even wild donkeys stick to their own kind, but donkey-Ephraim goes out and pays to get lovers. Now, because of their whoring life among the pagans, I’m going to gather them together and confront them. They’re going to reap the consequences soon, feel what it’s like to be oppressed by the big king.
Romans 2:5 - You’re not getting by with anything. Every refusal and avoidance of God adds fuel to the fire. The day is coming when it’s going to blaze hot and high, God’s fiery and righteous judgment. Make no mistake: In the end you get what’s coming to you—Real Life for those who work on God’s side, but to those who insist on getting their own way and take the path of least resistance, Fire!
Numbers 32:14 - “And now here you are, just one more mob of sinners stepping up to replace your ancestors, throwing fuel on the already blazing anger of God against Israel. If you won’t follow him, he’ll do it again. He’ll dump them in the desert and the disaster will be all your fault.”
Isaiah 30:1 - “Doom, rebel children!” God’s Decree. “You make plans, but not mine. You make deals, but not in my Spirit. You pile sin on sin, one sin on top of another, Going off to Egypt without so much as asking me, Running off to Pharaoh for protection, expecting to hide out in Egypt. Well, some protection Pharaoh will be! Some hideout, Egypt! They look big and important, true, with officials strategically established in Zoan in the north and Hanes in the south, but there’s nothing to them. Anyone stupid enough to trust them will end up looking stupid— All show, no substance, an embarrassing farce.”
Hosea 10:1 - Israel was once a lush vine, bountiful in grapes. The more lavish the harvest, the more promiscuous the worship. The more money they got, the more they squandered on gods-in-their-own-image. Their sweet smiles are sheer lies. They’re guilty as sin. God will smash their worship shrines, pulverize their god-images.
Isaiah 46:8 - “Think about this. Wrap your minds around it. This is serious business, rebels. Take it to heart. Remember your history, your long and rich history. I am God, the only God you’ve had or ever will have— incomparable, irreplaceable— From the very beginning telling you what the ending will be, All along letting you in on what is going to happen, Assuring you, ‘I’m in this for the long haul, I’ll do exactly what I set out to do,’ Calling that eagle, Cyrus, out of the east, from a far country the man I chose to help me. I’ve said it, and I’ll most certainly do it. I’ve planned it, so it’s as good as done.
1 Samuel 10:1 - Then Samuel took a flask of oil, poured it on Saul’s head, and kissed him. He said, “Do you see what this means? God has anointed you prince over his people. “This sign will confirm God’s anointing of you as prince over his inheritance: After you leave me today, as you get closer to your home country of Benjamin, you’ll meet two men near Rachel’s Tomb. They’ll say, ‘The donkeys you went to look for are found. Your father has forgotten about the donkeys and is worried about you, wringing his hands—quite beside himself!’
Isaiah 1:5 - “Why bother even trying to do anything with you when you just keep to your bullheaded ways? You keep beating your heads against brick walls. Everything within you protests against you. From the bottom of your feet to the top of your head, nothing’s working right. Wounds and bruises and running sores— untended, unwashed, unbandaged. Your country is laid waste, your cities burned down. Your land is destroyed by outsiders while you watch, reduced to rubble by barbarians. Daughter Zion is deserted— like a tumbledown shack on a dead-end street, Like a tarpaper shanty on the wrong side of the tracks, like a sinking ship abandoned by the rats. If God-of-the-Angel-Armies hadn’t left us a few survivors, we’d be as desolate as Sodom, doomed just like Gomorrah.
Habakkuk 2:18 - “What’s the use of a carved god so skillfully carved by its sculptor? What good is a fancy cast god when all it tells is lies? What sense does it make to be a pious god-maker who makes gods that can’t even talk? Who do you think you are— saying to a stick of wood, ‘Wake up,’ Or to a dumb stone, ‘Get up’? Can they teach you anything about anything? There’s nothing to them but surface. There’s nothing on the inside.
Romans 1:24 - So God said, in effect, “If that’s what you want, that’s what you get.” It wasn’t long before they were living in a pigpen, smeared with filth, filthy inside and out. And all this because they traded the true God for a fake god, and worshiped the god they made instead of the God who made them—the God we bless, the God who blesses us. Oh, yes!
Isaiah 44:18 - Pretty stupid, wouldn’t you say? Don’t they have eyes in their heads? Are their brains working at all? Doesn’t it occur to them to say, “Half of this tree I used for firewood: I baked bread, roasted meat, and enjoyed a good meal. And now I’ve used the rest to make a repulsive no-god. Here I am praying to a stick of wood!”
Isaiah 44:20 - This lover of emptiness, of nothing, is so out of touch with reality, so far gone, that he can’t even look at what he’s doing, can’t even look at the no-god stick of wood in his hand and say, “This is crazy.” * * *