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Isaiah 2:20

What does Isaiah 2:20 mean?

A plain-English look at Isaiah 2:20 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places;

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

In that day doth man cast his idols of silver, And his idols of gold, That they have made for him to worship, To moles, and to bats,

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made [each] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

Context

v.19And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.

v.20This passage

v.21to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 46:6

    Such as lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, they hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a god; they fall down, yea, they worship.

  • Isaiah 30:22

    And ye shall defile the overlaying of thy graven images of silver, and the plating of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as an unclean thing; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.

  • Leviticus 11:19

    and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

  • Isaiah 31:7

    For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

  • Philippians 3:7

    Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

  • Isaiah 46:1

    Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: the things that ye carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary beast.

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