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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
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The quote pictures an idol being broken and reduced to dust, while God’s “dust” is presented as greater than anything people make or worship. The contrast says that a human-made object has no lasting power beside the divine. It expresses religious rejection of the idol’s importance, using its destruction to emphasize God’s superiority.
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