Isaiah 44:9

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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.

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  • Isa 41:24 : 24 But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish is he who takes you for his gods.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Ps 115:8 : 8 Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.
  • Ps 135:18 : 18 Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.
  • Isa 2:20-21 : 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; 21 To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.
  • Isa 37:18-20 : 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. 20 But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hand, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you, and you only, are the Lord.
  • Deut 27:15 : 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.
  • Judg 10:14 : 14 Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble.
  • 1 Kgs 18:26-40 : 26 So they took the ox which was given them, and made it ready, crying out to Baal from morning till the middle of the day, and saying, O Baal, give ear to us. But there was no voice and no answer. And they were jumping up and down before the altar they had made. 27 And in the middle of the day, Elijah made sport of them, saying, Give louder cries, for he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or he may have gone away for some purpose, or he may be on a journey, or by chance he is sleeping and has to be made awake. 28 So they gave loud cries, cutting themselves with knives and swords, as was their way, till the blood came streaming out all over them. 29 And from the middle of the day they went on with their prayers till the time of the offering; but there was no voice, or any answer, or any who gave attention to them. 30 Then Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me; and all the people came near. And he put up again the altar of the Lord which had been broken down. 31 And Elijah took twelve stones, the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, Israel will be your name: 32 And with the stones he made an altar to the name of the Lord; and he made a deep drain all round the altar, great enough to take two measures of seed. 33 And he put the wood in order, and, cutting up the ox, put it on the wood. Then he said, Get four vessels full of water and put it on the burned offering and on the wood. And he said, Do it a second time, and they did it a second time; 34 And he said, Do it a third time, and they did it a third time. 35 And the water went all round the altar, till the drain was full. 36 Then at the time of the offering, Elijah the prophet came near and said, O Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be seen this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things by your order. 37 Give me an answer, O Lord, give me an answer, so that this people may see that you are God, and that you have made their hearts come back again. 38 Then the fire of the Lord came down, burning up the offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and drinking up the water in the drain. 39 And when the people saw it, they all went down on their faces, and said, The Lord, he is God, the Lord, he is God. 40 And Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal, let not one of them get away. So they took them, and Elijah made them go down to the stream Kishon, and put them to death there.
  • Isa 42:18 : 18 Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.
  • Isa 43:8 : 8 Send out the blind people who have eyes, and those who have ears, but they are shut.
  • Isa 44:18 : 18 They 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.
  • Isa 44:20 : 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 45:20 : 20 Come 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.
  • Isa 46:1-2 : 1 Bel is bent down, Nebo is falling; their images are on the beasts and on the cattle: the things which you took about have become a weight to the tired beast. 2 They are bent down, they are falling together: they were not able to keep their images safe, but they themselves have been taken prisoner.
  • 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 2:11 : 11 Has 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.
  • Jer 2:27-28 : 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. 28 But 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.
  • Jer 10:3-8 : 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.
  • Jer 10:14-15 : 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. 15 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
  • Jer 14:22 : 22 Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.
  • Jer 16:19-20 : 19 O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit. 20 Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?
  • Dan 5:23 : 23 But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;
  • Dan 11:38 : 38 But in place of this he will give honour to the god of armed places, and to a god of whom his fathers had no knowledge he will give honour with gold and silver and jewels and things to be desired.
  • Hos 8:4-6 : 4 They 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. 5 I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean? 6 The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.
  • 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.
  • Rom 1:22 : 22 Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,
  • 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.
  • 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.
  • Eph 4:18 : 18 Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;
  • Eph 5:8 : 8 For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

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

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  • Hab 2:18-19
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    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.

  • Isa 41:29
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    29 Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.

  • Jer 10:14-15
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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.

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

  • Ps 135:15-18
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    15 The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

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

    17 They have ears, but no hearing; and there is no breath in their mouths.

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

  • Jer 51:17-18
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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.

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

  • Ps 115:7-8
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    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.

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    17 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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    4 Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

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

  • Isa 2:8
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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.

  • Isa 40:18-20
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    18 Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?

    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.

  • Isa 44:17-18
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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.

    18 They 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.

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

  • Isa 17:8
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    8 He 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.

  • Jer 10:8
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    8 But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

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

  • Isa 46:6
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    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.

  • 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.

  • Deut 5:8
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    8 You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth:

  • Exod 20:4
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    4 You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

  • Hos 8:4
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    4 They 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 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Deut 4:16
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    16 So 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,

  • Ezek 7:20
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    20 As for their beautiful ornament, they had put it on high, and had made the images of their disgusting and hated things in it: for this cause I have made it an unclean thing to them.

  • Isa 41:24
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    24 But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish is he who takes you for his gods.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
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    18 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.

  • Deut 4:28
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    28 There 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.

  • Deut 4:23
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    23 Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.

  • 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.

  • Isa 29:15
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    15 Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?

  • Isa 45:20
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    20 Come 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.

  • Lev 26:1
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    1 Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.

  • Mic 5:13
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    13 I will have your Asherahs pulled up from among you: and I will send destruction on your images.

  • Deut 29:17
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    17 And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:)

  • 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.