Isaiah 42:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They will be turned back and be greatly shamed who put their hope in pictured images, who say to metal images, You are our gods.

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  • Ps 97:7 : 7 Shamed be all those who give worship to images, and take pride in false gods; give him worship, all you gods.
  • Isa 1:29 : 29 For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.
  • Isa 44:11 : 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.
  • Isa 44:17 : 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.
  • Isa 45:16-17 : 16 All those who have gone against him will be put to shame; the makers of images will be made low. 17 But the Lord will make Israel free with an eternal salvation: you will not be put to shame or made low for ever and ever.
  • Jer 2:26-27 : 26 As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets; 27 Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.
  • Hab 2:18-20 : 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. 20 But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth be quiet before him.
  • Exod 32:4 : 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.
  • Exod 32:8 : 8 Even now they are turned away from the rule I gave them, and have made themselves a metal ox and given worship to it and offerings, saying, This is your god, O Israel, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 45:16
    80%

    16All those who have gone against him will be put to shame; the makers of images will be made low.

  • Isa 42:18
    79%

    18Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.

  • Isa 44:9-11
    3 verses
    79%

    9Those 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.

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

    11Truly, 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.

  • Ps 97:7
    76%

    7Shamed be all those who give worship to images, and take pride in false gods; give him worship, all you gods.

  • Ps 115:8
    76%

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

  • Ps 135:18
    76%

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

  • Isa 42:16
    75%

    16And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

  • Jer 2:26-28
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    74%

    26As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets;

    27Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.

    28But where are the gods you have made for yourselves? let them come, if they are able to give you salvation in the time of your trouble: for the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah.

  • Isa 44:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17And 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.

    18They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.

  • Deut 32:37
    74%

    37And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they put their faith?

  • Isa 17:8
    74%

    8He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.

  • Hab 2:18-19
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    73%

    18What 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?

    19A 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.

  • Jer 16:20
    73%

    20Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?

  • Jer 51:17-18
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    17Then 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.

    18They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

  • Isa 31:6-7
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    73%

    6Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.

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

  • Isa 37:19
    73%

    19And 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.

  • Isa 2:8
    72%

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

  • Ps 115:4
    72%

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

  • Isa 45:20
    72%

    20Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    72%

    18And 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.

  • Isa 30:22
    72%

    22And 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!

  • Jer 10:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14Then 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.

    15They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

  • Deut 4:28
    72%

    28There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.

  • Ps 135:15
    72%

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

  • Exod 32:8
    71%

    8Even now they are turned away from the rule I gave them, and have made themselves a metal ox and given worship to it and offerings, saying, This is your god, O Israel, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.

  • Isa 46:6
    71%

    6As 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.

  • Isa 40:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

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

    19The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.

  • Isa 1:29
    70%

    29For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

  • Deut 31:18
    70%

    18Truly, my face will be turned away from them in that day, because of all the evil they have done in going after other gods.

  • Isa 2:20
    70%

    20In 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;

  • Jer 50:38
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    38A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods.

  • Jer 2:11
    70%

    11Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit.

  • Ezek 20:32
    70%

    32And that which comes into your minds will never take place; when you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, servants of wood and stone;

  • Hos 10:2
    70%

    2Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.

  • Isa 2:18
    70%

    18And the images will never be seen again.

  • Deut 29:17
    70%

    17And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:)

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    70%

    12And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

  • Ps 70:3
    70%

    3Let those who say Aha, aha! be turned back as a reward of their shame.

  • Zeph 1:6
    69%

    6And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.