Verse 20

Thus they turned their glory: into the similitude of a calfe that eateth hay.

Referenced Verses

• Jer 2:11 : 11 Whether the gentiles them selues haue chaunged their gods which yet are no gods in deede? but my people hath chaunged their honour for a thyng that may not helpe them.
• Rom 1:22-23 : 22 When they counted them selues wyse, they became fooles: 23 And turned the glorie of the immortall God, vnto an image, made not only after the similitude of a mortal man, but also of birdes, and foure footed beastes, and of crepyng beastes.
• Exod 20:4-5 : 4 Thou shalt make thee no grauen image, neyther any similitude that is in heauen aboue, eyther in the earth beneath, or in the waters vnder the earth. 5 Thou shalt not bowe downe to them, neyther serue them: for I the Lord thy God, am a gelous God, and visite the sinne of the fathers vpon the chyldren, vnto the thirde and fourth generation of them that hate me:
• Ps 89:17 : 17 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy louing kindnes thou wylt lift vp our hornes.
• Isa 40:18-25 : 18 To whom then wyll ye lyken God? or what similitude will ye set vp to him? 19 Shall the caruer make hym a carued image? and shall the goldesmith couer hym with golde, or cast hym into a fourme of siluer plates? 20 Moreouer, shal the image maker that the poore man which is disposed may haue some thyng to set vp also, seeke out and choose a tree that is not rotten, and carue thereout an image that moueth not? 21 Knowe ye nothyng? hearde ye neuer of it? hath it not ben preached vnto you since the beginning? haue ye not ben enfourmed of this by the foundation of the earth? 22 It is he that sitteth vpon the circle of the world, whose inhabiters are in comparison of him but as grashoppers: he spreadeth out the heauens as a couering, he stretcheth them out as a tent to dwell in. 23 He bringeth princes to nothing, and the iudges of the earth as though they were not. 24 So that of them it may be sayde, they be not planted nor sowne agayne, neither their stocke rooted agayne in the earth: for assoone as he bloweth vpon them, they wither and fade away lyke the strawe in a whirle winde. 25 To whom nowe will ye liken me, and whom shall I be lyke, saith the holy one?