Isaiah 44:10

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Who fashions a god or casts an idol that can profit nothing?

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 10:5 : 5 They are like scarecrows in a cucumber field; they cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm—nor can they do any good.
  • Hab 2:18 : 18 What profit is an idol when its maker has carved it, or a cast image that teaches falsehood? For its maker trusts in his own creation to make worthless idols that cannot speak.
  • Acts 19:26 : 26 You see and hear that not only in Ephesus but almost all of Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great number of people by saying that gods made by hands are not really gods.
  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 So then, concerning eating food sacrificed to idols: we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and there is no God but one.
  • Dan 3:1 : 1 King Nebuchadnezzar made a gold statue, ninety feet high and nine feet wide, and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
  • Dan 3:14 : 14 Nebuchadnezzar said to them, 'Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden statue I have set up?'
  • 1 Kgs 12:28 : 28 After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to the people, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.
  • Isa 41:29 : 29 Behold, all of them are worthless; their works are nothing; their metal idols are wind and emptiness.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 44:9
    90%

    9All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses see nothing and know nothing, so they will be put to shame.

  • Hab 2:18-19
    2 verses
    85%

    18What profit is an idol when its maker has carved it, or a cast image that teaches falsehood? For its maker trusts in his own creation to make worthless idols that cannot speak.

    19Woe to him who says to wood, 'Awake!' or to silent stone, 'Arise!' Can it teach? Look, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath at all within it.

  • Isa 40:18-20
    3 verses
    82%

    18To whom, then, will you compare God? What image can you find to resemble Him?

    19As for an idol, a craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.

    20A person who is too poor to afford such an idol selects wood that will not rot; they look for a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple.

  • Jer 10:14-15
    2 verses
    81%

    14Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by their idols. The images he makes are a fraud; they have no breath in them.

    15They are worthless, a work of mockery; at the time of their punishment, they will perish.

  • Jer 51:17-18
    2 verses
    80%

    17Every human is senseless, lacking knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.

    18They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment, they will perish.

  • Jer 16:20
    79%

    20Can people make their own gods? Such gods are not gods at all!

  • Ps 135:18
    78%

    18Those who make them will become like them; so will all who trust in them.

  • Ps 115:4
    78%

    4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

  • Ps 115:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7They have hands but cannot touch, feet but cannot walk, nor can they make a sound with their throats.

    8Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

  • Isa 44:17-19
    3 verses
    78%

    17From the rest he makes a god, his idol, and bows down to it. He worships it and prays to it, saying, 'Save me, for you are my god.'

    18They have no knowledge or understanding; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their hearts so they cannot understand.

    19No one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, 'Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals, roasted meat, and ate. Now, should I make an abomination of the rest? Should I bow down to a block of wood?'

  • Isa 44:11
    77%

    11Behold, all his companions will be put to shame, and the craftsmen are mere men. Let them all assemble and take their stand; they will be terrified and put to shame together.

  • Isa 41:29
    77%

    29Behold, all of them are worthless; their works are nothing; their metal idols are wind and emptiness.

  • Isa 46:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5To whom will you compare Me or make Me equal? Who will you liken Me to, that we may be alike?

    6They pour out gold from their purses and weigh silver on a scale. They hire a craftsman to make it into a god, and they bow down and even worship it.

  • Ps 135:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

    16They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes but cannot see.

  • Isa 2:8
    75%

    8Their land is filled with idols. They bow down to the work of their own hands, to what their fingers have made.

  • Jer 10:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8They are all senseless and foolish; their instruction comes from worthless idols.

    9Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz—the work of the craftsman and of the goldsmith. Their clothing is blue and purple, all made by skilled workers.

  • Isa 44:15
    74%

    15It becomes fuel for a man; he takes part of it to warm himself, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. But he also makes a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.

  • Isa 45:16
    74%

    16They will all be ashamed and humiliated, all of them will walk in disgrace—the makers of idols.

  • Deut 27:15
    74%

    15Cursed is anyone who makes a carved or cast idol, an abomination to the LORD, the work of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Isa 42:17
    74%

    17They will be turned back; they will be utterly ashamed—those who trust in carved idols and say to molten images, 'You are our gods.'

  • Isa 37:19
    74%

    19They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

  • Isa 41:24
    74%

    24Look, you are nothing, and your works are less than nothing; anyone who chooses you is an abomination.

  • Isa 29:16
    73%

    16You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, 'You did not make me'? Can the pot say to the potter, 'You know nothing'?

  • Hos 8:6
    73%

    6This calf comes from Israel! A craftsman made it; it is not God. It will be shattered into pieces—this calf of Samaria.

  • Exod 20:4
    73%

    4You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or on the earth below, or in the waters under the earth.

  • Jer 2:11
    73%

    11Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glory for worthless idols.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    73%

    18They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but merely the work of human hands—wood and stone.

  • Deut 5:8
    72%

    8You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.

  • Isa 17:8
    72%

    8They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, nor will they regard what their fingers have made, neither the Asherim nor the incense altars.

  • Deut 4:16
    72%

    16Do not act corruptly by making for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure, whether male or female.

  • Exod 34:17
    72%

    17Do not make any molten gods for yourselves.

  • Hos 8:4
    72%

    4They set up kings, but not by me; they appointed leaders, but I did not know of it. With their silver and gold, they made idols for themselves, to their own destruction.

  • Isa 45:9
    72%

    9Woe to those who strive with their Maker, like a piece of pottery among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?

  • Isa 31:7
    72%

    7For on that day each of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your hands have sinfully made.

  • Isa 45:20
    72%

    20Gather together and come; assemble, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood, who pray to gods that cannot save.

  • Deut 4:28
    71%

    28There you will serve gods made by human hands—objects of wood and stone that cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.

  • Ps 97:7
    71%

    7All who serve carved images and boast in idols are put to shame; bow down to Him, all you gods!

  • Acts 7:41
    71%

    41At that time, they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.

  • Isa 54:16
    70%

    16Behold, I have created the smith who blows the coals in the fire and produces a weapon fit for its purpose; and I have also created the destroyer to ruin.