Psalms 115:8

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

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  • Ps 135:18 : 18 Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.
  • Isa 44:9-9 : 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. 12 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. 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. 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. 19 And 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? 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.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
  • Jonah 2:8 : 8 When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple.
  • Hab 2:18-19 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 135:15-18
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    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;

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

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

  • Ps 115:4-5
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    4Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

    5They have mouths, but no voice; they have eyes, but they see not;

  • Isa 44:9-11
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    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 115:7
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    7They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking; and no sound comes from their throat.

  • Isa 2:8
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    8Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made.

  • Ps 115:9
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    9O Israel, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate.

  • 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.

  • Jer 10:14-15
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    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.

  • Isa 42:17
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    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.

  • Hab 2:18
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    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?

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

  • Isa 45:16
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    16All those who have gone against him will be put to shame; the makers of images will be made low.

  • Isa 44:17-18
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    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.

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

  • Isa 46:6
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    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 40:18-20
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    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.

  • Isa 17:8
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    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.

  • Hos 8:6
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    6The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.

  • Jer 17:5
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    5This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.

  • Jer 7:8
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    8See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.

  • Ps 97:7
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    7Shamed be all those who give worship to images, and take pride in false gods; give him worship, all you gods.

  • Isa 37:19
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    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.

  • Ps 40:4
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    4Happy is the man who has faith in the Lord, and does not give honour to the men of pride or to those who are turned away to deceit.

  • Isa 31:7
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    7For in that day they will all give up their images of silver and of gold, the sin which they made for themselves.

  • Ps 125:1
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    1<A Song of the going up.> Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever.

  • Ps 118:8
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    8It is better to have faith in the Lord than to put one's hope in man.

  • Hos 8:4
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    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.

  • Ps 115:11
    71%

    11You worshippers of the Lord, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate.

  • Acts 7:41
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    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.

  • Deut 27:15
    71%

    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.

  • Exod 32:8
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    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.

  • 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.

  • Isa 41:29
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
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    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
    71%

    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:

  • Hos 13:2
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    2And 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 44:15
    70%

    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.

  • Deut 32:37
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    37And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they put their faith?