beauty of ships. And the contumely of men shall be humbled and shall fall, and the Lord
alone shall be exalted in that day;627 and all things made by hands they shall hide in dens,
and in holes of the rocks, and in caves of the earth, from before the fear of the Lord, and
from the majesty of His power, when He arises to crush the earth: for in that day a man shall
cast away the abominations of gold and silver, the vain and evil things which they made for
worship, in order to go into the clefts of the solid rock, and into the holes of the rocks, from
before the fear of the Lord, and from the majesty of His power, when He arises to break the
earth in pieces.628
627 [Ver. 18, though very relevant, is omitted: “And the idols shalt utterly pass away.”—R.]
628 Isa. ii. 5–21. [The variations from the Hebrew are quite numerous; compare the English versions.— R.]
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Of the Predicted Rejection of Idols.