Isaiah 40:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.

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  • Ps 115:4-8 : 4 Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 5 They have mouths, but no voice; they have eyes, but they see not; 6 They have ears, but no hearing; they have noses, but no sense of smell; 7 They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking; and no sound comes from their throat. 8 Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.
  • Jer 10:9 : 9 Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.
  • Hab 2:18-19 : 18 What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice? 19 A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it.
  • Hos 8:6 : 6 The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.
  • Ps 135:15 : 15 The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
  • Ps 135:18 : 18 Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.
  • Isa 2:20 : 20 In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places;
  • Isa 37:18-19 : 18 Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste all the nations and their lands, 19 And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.
  • Exod 32:2-4 : 2 Then Aaron said to them, Take off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives and your sons and your daughters, and give them to me. 3 And all the people took the gold rings from their ears and gave them to Aaron. 4 And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.
  • Judg 17:4 : 4 So he gave the silver back to his mother. Then his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a metal-worker who made a pictured image and a metal image from them: and it was in the house of Micah.
  • Isa 44:10-12 : 10 Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit. 11 Truly, all those who make use of secret arts will be put to shame, and their words of power are only words of men: let them all come forward together; they will all be in fear and be put to shame. 12 The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.
  • Isa 46:6-7 : 6 As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship. 7 They put him on their backs, and take him up, and put him in his fixed place, from which he may not be moved; if a man gives a cry for help to him, he is unable to give an answer, or get him out of his trouble.
  • Jer 10:3-5 : 3 For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe. 4 They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved. 5 It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good.
  • Isa 41:6-7 : 6 They gave help everyone to his neighbour; and everyone said to his brother, Take heart! 7 So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.

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    5 Who in your eyes is my equal? or what comparison will you make with me?

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  • Isa 44:9-12
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    9 Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.

    10 Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.

    11 Truly, all those who make use of secret arts will be put to shame, and their words of power are only words of men: let them all come forward together; they will all be in fear and be put to shame.

    12 The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.

  • Isa 40:20
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    20 The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved.

  • Isa 40:18
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    18 Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?

  • Ps 135:15
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    15 The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • Jer 10:9
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    9 Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.

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    4 Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

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    4 To do all sorts of delicate work in gold and silver and brass;

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  • Hab 2:18-19
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    18 What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice?

    19 A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it.

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    32 As an expert designer of beautiful things, working in gold and silver and brass;

    33 Trained in the cutting of stones and the ornamenting of wood and in every sort of handwork.

  • Jer 51:17
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    17 Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

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    14 Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

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    39 A talent of gold will be needed for it, with all these vessels.

  • 1 Chr 29:5
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    5 Gold for the gold things, and silver for the silver things, and for every sort of work to be done by the expert workmen. Who then will come forward, offering himself this day for the Lord's work?

  • Jer 10:4
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    4 They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved.

  • Isa 41:7
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    7 So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.

  • Isa 44:17
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    17 And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his pictured image: he goes down on his face before it, giving worship to it, and making prayer to it, saying, Be my saviour; for you are my god.

  • Ps 135:18
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    18 Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.

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    8 Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made.

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    14 And two chains of the best gold, twisted like cords; and have the chains fixed on to the frames.

  • Exod 39:15
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    15 And on the bag they put gold chains, twisted like cords.

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    3 Hammering the gold into thin plates and cutting it into wires to be worked into the blue and the purple and the red and the linen by the designer.

  • Isa 44:15
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    15 Then it will be used to make a fire, so that a man may get warm; he has the oven heated with it and makes bread: he makes a god with it, to which he gives worship: he makes a pictured image out of it, and goes down on his face before it.

  • Ps 115:8
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    8 Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.

  • Isa 31:7
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    7 For in that day they will all give up their images of silver and of gold, the sin which they made for themselves.

  • Isa 30:22
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    22 And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!

  • Song 1:11
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    11 We will make you chains of gold with ornaments of silver.

  • Exod 37:24
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    24 A talent of the best gold was used for the making of it and its vessels.

  • Deut 27:15
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    15 Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • Jer 16:20
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    20 Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?

  • Isa 3:19
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    19 The ear-rings, and the chains, and the delicate clothing,

  • Exod 37:22
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    22 The buds and the branches were made of the same metal, all together one complete work of the best hammered gold.

  • Exod 28:22
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    22 And you are to make two chains of gold, twisted like cords, to be fixed to the priest's bag.

  • Hos 13:2
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    2 And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.

  • Exod 37:17
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    17 Then he made the support for the lights, all of the best gold; its base and its pillar were of hammered gold; its cups and buds and flowers were all made out of the same metal:

  • Prov 25:4
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    4 Take away the waste from silver, and a vessel will come out for the silver-worker.

  • Hos 8:6
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    6 The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.

  • Exod 25:31
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    31 And you are to make a support for lights, of the best gold; its base and its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its cups, its buds, and its flowers are to be made of the same metal.

  • Exod 37:2
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    2 Plating it inside and out with the best gold, and putting an edge of gold all round it.

  • Isa 37:19
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    19 And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.

  • Ezek 16:11
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    11 And I made you fair with ornaments and put jewels on your hands and a chain on your neck.

  • Exod 37:12
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    12 And he made a frame all round it about as wide as a man's hand, edged with gold all round.

  • Exod 25:36
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    36 The buds and the branches are to be made of the same metal; all together one complete work of hammered gold.