Isaiah 2:18

THE MESSAGE

And all those sticks and stones dressed up to look like gods will be gone for good.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The idols will vanish completely.

Hebrew Names Version
The idols shall utterly pass away.

King James Version
And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

English Standard Version
And the idols shall utterly pass away.

New American Standard Bible
And the idols will completely vanish.

New Century Version
but all the idols will be gone.

Amplified Bible
And the idols will completely vanish (be abolished).

World English Bible
The idols shall utterly pass away.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the idoles will he vtterly destroy.

Legacy Standard Bible
But the idols will completely vanish.

Berean Standard Bible
and the idols will vanish completely.

Contemporary English Version
Idols will be gone for good.

Complete Jewish Bible
The idols will be completely abolished.

Darby Translation
and the idols shall utterly pass away.

Easy-to-Read Version
All the idols will be gone.

George Lamsa Translation
And the idols shall utterly pass away.

Lexham English Bible
And the idols shall pass away entirely,

Literal Translation
And the idols shall completely vanish.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But the Idols shal utterly be roted out.

American Standard Version
And the idols shall utterly pass away.

Bible in Basic English
And the images will never be seen again.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the idols shall utterly pass away.

King James Version (1611)
And the idoles hee shall vtterly abolish.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
As for the idols he shall vtterly abolishe:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they shall hide all idols made with hands,

English Revised Version
And the idols shall utterly pass away.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and idols schulen be brokun togidere outirli.

Update Bible Version
And the idols shall completely pass away.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the idols he will utterly abolish.

New English Translation
The worthless idols will be completely eliminated.

New King James Version
But the idols He shall utterly abolish.

New Living Translation
Idols will completely disappear.

New Life Bible
All the false gods will be gone.

New Revised Standard
The idols shall utterly pass away.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the idols, shall wholly pass away;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And idols shall be utterly destroyed.

Revised Standard Version
And the idols shall utterly pass away.

Young's Literal Translation
And the idols -- they completely pass away.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But the idols will completely vanish.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ Head for the hills, hide in the caves From the terror of God , from his dazzling presence. ¹¹People with a big head are headed for a fall, pretentious egos brought down a peg. It's God alone at front-and-center on the Day we're talking about, The Day that God -of-the-Angel-Armies is matched against all big-talking rivals, against all swaggering big names; Against all giant sequoias hugely towering, and against the expansive chestnut; Against Kilimanjaro and Annapurna, against the ranges of Alps and Andes; Against every soaring skyscraper, against all proud obelisks and statues; Against ocean-going luxury liners, against elegant three-masted schooners. The swelled big heads will be punctured bladders, the pretentious egos brought down to earth, Leaving God alone at front-and-center on the Day we're talking about. ¹⁸ And all those sticks and stones dressed up to look like gods will be gone for good. ¹⁹ Clamber into caves in the cliffs, duck into any hole you can find. Hide from the terror of God , from his dazzling presence, When he assumes his full stature on earth, towering and terrifying. ²⁰On that Day men and women will take the sticks and stones They've decked out in gold and silver to look like gods and then worshiped, And they will dump them in any ditch or gully, Then run for rock caves and cliff hideouts To hide from the terror of God , from his dazzling presence, When he assumes his full stature on earth, towering and terrifying. ²² Quit scraping and fawning over mere humans, so full of themselves, so full of hot air! Can't you see there's nothing to them?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the idols: Isaiah 27:9, Ezekiel 36:25, Ezekiel 37:23, Hosea 14:8, Zephaniah 1:3, Zechariah 13:2

he shall utterly abolish: or, shall utterly pass away

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 9:21 - I took 1 Samuel 5:4 - the head 2 Kings 11:18 - brake they 2 Chronicles 23:17 - brake his altars 2 Chronicles 30:14 - altars Isaiah 17:8 - he shall Jeremiah 10:11 - they Jeremiah 10:15 - in the Ezekiel 6:6 - your altars Ezekiel 16:41 - and I Micah 5:12 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 1:31
God looked over everything he had made; it was so good, so very good! It was evening, it was morning— Day Six.

Genesis 3:12
The Man said, "The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it." God said to the Woman, "What is this that you've done?"

Ruth 3:1
One day her mother-in-law Naomi said to Ruth, "My dear daughter, isn't it about time I arranged a good home for you so you can have a happy life? And isn't Boaz our close relative, the one with whose young women you've been working? Maybe it's time to make our move. Tonight is the night of Boaz's barley harvest at the threshing floor.

Proverbs 18:22
Find a good spouse, you find a good life— and even more: the favor of God !

1 Corinthians 7:36
If a man has a woman friend to whom he is loyal but never intended to marry, having decided to serve God as a "single," and then changes his mind, deciding he should marry her, he should go ahead and marry. It's no sin; it's not even a "step down" from celibacy, as some say. On the other hand, if a man is comfortable in his decision for a single life in service to God and it's entirely his own conviction and not imposed on him by others, he ought to stick with it. Marriage is spiritually and morally right and not inferior to singleness in any way, although as I indicated earlier, because of the times we live in, I do have pastoral reasons for encouraging singleness.

1 Peter 3:7
The same goes for you husbands: Be good husbands to your wives. Honor them, delight in them. As women they lack some of your advantages. But in the new life of God's grace, you're equals. Treat your wives, then, as equals so your prayers don't run aground.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the idols he shall utterly abolish. The images of saints worshipped by the Papists: after the destruction of antichrist, and when the spiritual reign of Christ takes place, there will be no idolatry or worshipping of images any more, see Zechariah 13:2. The word

אלילים, used for "idols", signifies things that are not, for an idol is nothing in the world, 1 Corinthians 8:4 these the Lord "will cause to pass away", even all of them, they shall disappear.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 2:18. Shall utterly abolish - "Shall disappear"] The ancient versions and an ancient MS. read יחלפו yachalpu, plural. One of my MSS. reads יחלוף yachaloph, probably a mistake for יחלפו yachalpu.