Micah 1:7
“And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →The idols Samaria trusted will be shattered and burned, their wealth scattered as it was gathered, through unfaithfulness.
What Does Micah 1:7 Mean?
The carved images that the city trusted are broken and burned. The wealth gathered through spiritual unfaithfulness, here pictured as the wages of a harlot, will simply pass on as it came. What was won by betrayal cannot be kept.
Idols promise security and deliver nothing; when judgment comes they cannot even save themselves. The verse exposes the emptiness of every substitute for God. Whatever we serve in His place will one day be shown powerless, and only the living God remains.
In the Original Language
pesel (פֶּסֶל), 'graven image' -- a carved idol, the work of human hands set up for worship.