Isaiah 2:20
Modern Translations
New International Version
In that day people will throw away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and idols of gold, which they made to worship.

New Living Translation
On that day of judgment they will abandon the gold and silver idols they made for themselves to worship. They will leave their gods to the rodents and bats,

English Standard Version
In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,

Berean Study Bible
In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.

New American Standard Bible
On that day people will throw away to the moles and the bats Their idols of silver and their idols of gold, Which they made for themselves to worship,

NASB 1995
In that day men will cast away to the moles and the bats Their idols of silver and their idols of gold, Which they made for themselves to worship,

NASB 1977
In that day men will cast away to the moles and the bats Their idols of silver and their idols of gold, Which they made for themselves to worship,

Amplified Bible
In that day men will throw away to the moles and to the bats Their idols of silver and their idols of gold, Which they made for themselves [as objects] to worship,

Christian Standard Bible
On that day people will throw their worthless idols of silver and gold, which they made to worship, to the moles and the bats.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
On that day people will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made to worship, to the moles and the bats.

Contemporary English Version
On that day everyone will throw to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold they made to worship.

Good News Translation
When that day comes, they will throw away the gold and silver idols they have made, and abandon them to the moles and the bats.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
On that day people will throw to the moles and the bats the silver and gold idols that they made for themselves to worship.

International Standard Version
At that time, mankind will throw their silver and gold idols that their fingers have made as objects of worship to the moles and to the bats.

NET Bible
At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live,
Classic Translations
King James Bible
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;

New King James Version
In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver And his idols of gold, Which they made, each for himself to worship, To the moles and bats,

King James 2000 Bible
In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made, each for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

New Heart English Bible
to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

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

American King James Version
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;

American Standard Version
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;

A Faithful Version
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;

Darby Bible Translation
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;

English Revised Version
In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made for him to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

Webster's Bible Translation
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;

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
At that day shall man cast away his siluer idoles, & his golden idoles (which they had made themselues to worship them) to the mowles and to the backes,

Bishops' Bible of 1568
In the selfe same day shall man cast away his gods of siluer, and his gods of golde, into the holes of Mowles and Backes, which he neuerthelesse had made to hym selfe to honour them.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Then, the shal ma cast awaye his goddes of syluer and golde (which he neuertheles had made to honoure the) vnto Molles and Backes:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
In that day man casts his idols of silver, "" And his idols of gold, "" That they have made for him to worship, "" To moles, and to bats,

Young's Literal Translation
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,

Smith's Literal Translation
In that day man shall cast the nothings of his silver and the nothings of his gold which they made for him to worship, to the digging of moles and to bats.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Catholic Public Domain Version
In that day, man shall cast aside his idols of silver and his images of gold, which he had made for himself, as if to reverence the moles and the bats.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
In that day men shall throw idols of gold and of silver, that they had made for themselves to worship, to nothingness and to the bats

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

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
In that day a man shall cast away His idols of silver, and his idols of gold, Which they made for themselves to worship, To the moles and to the bats;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For in that day a man shall cast forth his silver and gold abominations, which they made in order to worship vanities and bats;
















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