Yehezkiel 6:6

6:6 In all your dwellings, the cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined so that your altars will be laid waste and ruined, your idols will be shattered and demolished, your incense altars will be broken down, and your works wiped out. ¹ 

Mikha 1:7

1:7 All her carved idols will be smashed to pieces;

all her metal cult statues will be destroyed by fire. ² 

I will make a waste heap ³  of all her images.

Since ⁴  she gathered the metal ⁵  as a prostitute collects her wages,

the idols will become a prostitute’s wages again.” ⁶ 

[6:6]  ¹ tn The Hebrew verb translated “wiped out” is used to describe the judgment of the Flood (Gen 6:7; 7:4, 23).

[1:7]  ² tn Heb “and all her prostitute’s wages will be burned with fire.”

[1:7]  sn The precious metal used by Samaria’s pagan worship centers to make idols are here compared to a prostitute’s wages because Samaria had been unfaithful to the Lord and prostituted herself to pagan gods, such as Baal.

[1:7]  ³ tn Heb “I will make desolate” (so NASB).

[1:7]  ⁴ tn Or “for” (KJV, NASB, NRSV).

[1:7]  ⁵ tn No object is specified in the Hebrew text; the words “the metal” are supplied from the context.

[1:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “for from a prostitute’s wages she gathered, and to a prostitute’s wages they will return.” When the metal was first collected it was comparable to the coins a prostitute would receive for her services. The metal was then formed into idols, but now the Lord’s fiery judgment would reduce the metal images to their original condition.