Isaiah 2:8

Sin

⁶ For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

⁷ Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots.

Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.

⁹ So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled— do not forgive them!

¹⁰ Go into the rocks and hide in the dust from the terror of the LORD and the splendor of His majesty.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
KJV: Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
WEB: Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
ASV: Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
DARBY: And their land is full of idols; they bow themselves down to the work of their own hands, to that which their fingers have made.
BLB: And its land is full of idols; [to] the work of the hands they bow down—to that which its fingers have made.

ÅB: deres land ble fullt av avguder; de tilber sine henders verk, det deres fingrer har gjort.
OTB: Deres land er fullt av avguder; de bøyer seg for sine henders verk, for det deres fingre har laget.
B1930: deres land blev fullt av avguder; de tilbeder sine henders verk, det deres fingrer har gjort.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Psalms 115:4–8
Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
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Revelation 9:20
Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.
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Isaiah 37:19
They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.
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Jeremiah 2:28
But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.
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Jeremiah 11:13
Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense to Baal—are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’
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2 Chronicles 33:3–7
For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
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Acts 17:16
While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.
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Isaiah 57:5
who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
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