Psalms 115:4

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

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  • Deut 4:28 : 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.
  • 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.
  • 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:
  • Isa 40:19-20 : 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 44:10 : 10 Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.
  • 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 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 42:17 : 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.
  • 2 Kgs 19:18 : 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.
  • 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 135:15-18 : 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.
  • Isa 37:19 : 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.
  • Acts 19:35 : 35 And when the chief secretary had got the people quiet, he said, Men of Ephesus, is any man without knowledge that the town of Ephesus is the keeper of the holy place of the great Diana, who was sent down from Jupiter?
  • 1 Cor 10:19-20 : 19 Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything? 20 What I say is that the things offered by the Gentiles are offered to evil spirits and not to God; and it is not my desire for you to have any part with evil spirits.
  • Hos 8:6 : 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.

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Ps 115:5
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    5 They have mouths, but no voice; they have eyes, but they see not;

  • Isa 40:18-19
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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.

  • Isa 44:9-10
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    78%

    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.

  • 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 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.

  • Jer 10:14-15
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    77%

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 115:2-3
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    2 Why may the nations say, Where is now their God?

    3 But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Ps 96:5
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    5 For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens.

  • Acts 7:41
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    41 And 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 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.

  • 1 Chr 16:26
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    26 For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens.

  • 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:)

  • 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.

  • Jer 10:8-9
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    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.

  • 2 Chr 32:19
    75%

    19 Talking of the God of Jerusalem as if he was like the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of men's hands.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Isa 2:20
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    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;

  • Ps 97:7
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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.

  • 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.

  • Rev 9:20
    73%

    20 And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:

  • Isa 42:17
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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.

  • 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.

  • Isa 2:18
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    18 And the images will never be seen again.

  • Exod 32:4
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    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.

  • Isa 45:16
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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.

  • Dan 5:4
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    4 They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.