Isaiah 44:12

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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.

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  • Isa 40:19 : 19 The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.
  • 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.
  • 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 10:3-9 : 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. 6 There is no one like you, O Lord; you are great and your name is great in power. 7 Who would not have fear of you, O King of the nations? for it is your right: for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you. 8 But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood. 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. 10 But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath. 11 This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?
  • 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.

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  • Isa 44:9-11
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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.

  • Isa 44:13-17
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    13 The woodworker is measuring out the wood with his line, marking it out with his pencil: after smoothing it with his plane, and making circles on it with his instrument, he gives it the form and glory of a man, so that it may be placed in the house.

    14 He has cedars cut down for himself, he takes an oak and lets it get strong among the trees of the wood; he has an ash-tree planted, and the rain gives it growth.

    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.

    16 With part of it he makes a fire, and on the fire he gets meat cooked and takes a full meal: he makes himself warm, and says, Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire:

    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 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 54:16
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    16 See, 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.

  • Isa 40:19-20
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    74%

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

    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.

  • Exod 31:4-5
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    4 To do all sorts of delicate work in gold and silver and brass;

    5 In cutting stones for framing, and to do every form of woodwork.

  • Isa 10:15
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    15 Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.

  • Exod 35:32-33
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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.

  • 1 Sam 13:19-20
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    19 Now there was no iron-worker in all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, For fear the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears:

    20 But all the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their ploughs and blades and axes and hooks made sharp;

  • Job 28:2
    69%

    2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire.

  • Isa 1:31
    69%

    31 And the strong will be as food for the fire, and his work as a flame; and they will be burned together, with no one to put out the fire.

  • Ezek 15:4
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    4 See, it is put into the fire for burning: the fire has made a meal of its two ends and the middle part of it is burned; is it good for any work?

  • Eccl 10:9-10
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    9 He who gets out stones from the earth will be damaged by them, and in the cutting of wood there is danger.

    10 If the iron has no edge, and he does not make it sharp, then he has to put out more strength; but wisdom makes things go well.

  • Jer 15:12
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    12 Is it possible for iron to be broken; even iron from the north, and brass?

  • Hab 2:13
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    13 See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?

  • Isa 45:9
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    9 Cursed 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?

  • Job 24:11
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    11 Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.

  • 1 Chr 22:15-16
    2 verses
    68%

    15 And you have a great number of workmen, cutters and workers of stone and wood, and experts in every sort of work,

    16 In gold and silver and brass and iron more than may be numbered. Up! then, and to work; and may the Lord be with you.

  • Jer 6:29
    68%

    29 The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away.

  • Jer 10:9
    68%

    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.

  • Jer 10:14
    68%

    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.

  • Ps 74:6
    67%

    6 Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades.

  • 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.

  • Neh 4:17-18
    2 verses
    67%

    17 Those who were building the wall and those who were moving material did their part, everyone working with one hand, with his spear in the other;

    18 Every builder was working with his sword at his side. And by my side was a man for sounding the horn.

  • Joel 3:10
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    10 For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.

  • 2 Chr 24:12
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    12 Then the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who were responsible for getting the work done on the Lord's house, and with it they got wall-builders and woodworkers and metal-workers to put the house of the Lord in good order again.

  • Nah 3:14
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    14 Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

  • Ezek 21:11
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    11 And I have given it to the polisher so that it may be taken in the hand: he has made the sword sharp, he has had it polished, to put it into the hand of him who gives death.

  • Exod 35:35
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    35 To them he has given knowledge of all the arts of the handworker, of the designer, and the expert workman; of the maker of needlework in blue and purple and red and the best linen, and of the maker of cloth; in all the arts of the designer and the trained workman they are expert.

  • Isa 44:20
    66%

    20 As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.

  • Isa 46:6
    66%

    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.

  • Job 40:18
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    18 Truly, if the river is overflowing, it gives him no cause for fear; he has no sense of danger, even if Jordan is rushing against his mouth.

  • Ps 129:7
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    7 He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.