Isaiah 44:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 10:5 : 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.
  • Hab 2:18 : 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?
  • Acts 19:26 : 26 And you see, for it has come to your ears, that not only at Ephesus, but almost all through Asia, this Paul has been teaching numbers of people and turning them away, saying that those are not gods who are made by men's hands:
  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
  • Dan 3:1 : 1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide: he put it up in the valley of Dura, in the land of Babylon.
  • Dan 3:14 : 14 Nebuchadnezzar made answer and said to them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, that you will not be servants of my god or give worship to the image of gold which I have put up?
  • 1 Kgs 12:28 : 28 So after taking thought the king made two oxen of gold; and he said to the people, You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough; see! these are your gods, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.
  • Isa 41:29 : 29 Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 44:9
    90%

    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.

  • Hab 2:18-19
    2 verses
    85%

    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.

  • Isa 40:18-20
    3 verses
    82%

    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.

    20The 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.

  • Jer 10:14-15
    2 verses
    81%

    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.

  • Jer 51:17-18
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    80%

    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.

  • Jer 16:20
    79%

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

  • Ps 135:18
    78%

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

  • Ps 115:4
    78%

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

  • Ps 115:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking; and no sound comes from their throat.

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

  • Isa 44:17-19
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

    19And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?

  • Isa 44:11
    77%

    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.

  • Isa 41:29
    77%

    29Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.

  • Isa 46:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

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

    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.

  • Ps 135:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

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

    16They have mouths, but no voice, they have eyes, but they do not see;

  • Isa 2:8
    75%

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

  • Jer 10:8-9
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    75%

    8But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

    9Silver 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.

  • Isa 44:15
    74%

    15Then 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.

  • Isa 45:16
    74%

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

  • Deut 27:15
    74%

    15Cursed 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.

  • Isa 42:17
    74%

    17They will be turned back and be greatly shamed who put their hope in pictured images, who say to metal images, You are our gods.

  • Isa 37:19
    74%

    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 41:24
    74%

    24But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish is he who takes you for his gods.

  • Isa 29:16
    73%

    16You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?

  • Hos 8:6
    73%

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

  • Exod 20:4
    73%

    4You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

  • Jer 2:11
    73%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    73%

    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.

  • Deut 5:8
    72%

    8You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth:

  • Isa 17:8
    72%

    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.

  • Deut 4:16
    72%

    16So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,

  • Exod 34:17
    72%

    17Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

  • Hos 8:4
    72%

    4They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.

  • Isa 45:9
    72%

    9Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

  • Isa 31:7
    72%

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

  • 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.

  • Deut 4:28
    71%

    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 97:7
    71%

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

  • Acts 7:41
    71%

    41And they made the image of a young ox in those days, and made an offering to it, and had joy in the work of their hands.

  • Isa 54:16
    70%

    16See, I have made the iron-worker, blowing on the burning coals, and making the instrument of war by his work; and I have made the waster for destruction.