Psalms 135:18
Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.
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- 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.
- Isa 44:18-20 : 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.
- 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.
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- Ps 115:7-93 verses96%
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.
9O Israel, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate.
- Isa 44:9-113 verses80%
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 135:15-173 verses80%
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.
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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;
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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.
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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?
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.
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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.
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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.
18Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.
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16All those who have gone against him will be put to shame; the makers of images will be made low.
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20Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?
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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.
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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.
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8But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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29Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.
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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.
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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.
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6The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.
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8See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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26For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens.
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6Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.
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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.
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19Give praise to the Lord, O children of Israel: give praise to the Lord, O sons of Aaron: