Psalms 115:4

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

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  • Deut 4:28 : 28 There you will serve gods made by human hands—objects of wood and stone that cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.
  • Isa 46:6-7 : 6 They 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. 7 They lift it on their shoulders and carry it; they set it in its place, and there it stays. It does not move from its spot. If someone cries to it, it cannot answer or save them from their troubles.
  • Jer 10:3-5 : 3 For the customs of the nations are worthless. They cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped by the hands of a craftsman with a chisel. 4 They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with nails and hammers so it will not totter. 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.
  • 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.
  • Isa 40:19-20 : 19 As for an idol, a craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it. 20 A 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.
  • Isa 44:10 : 10 Who fashions a god or casts an idol that can profit nothing?
  • Isa 44:20 : 20 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, 'Isn't there a lie in my right hand?'
  • Isa 46:1-2 : 1 Bel has stooped; Nebo has bowed down. Their idols are placed on animals and livestock. These burdens you carry are heavy, a load for the weary. 2 They collapse and bow down together; they cannot rescue the burden, but they themselves go into captivity.
  • Isa 42:17 : 17 They will be turned back; they will be utterly ashamed—those who trust in carved idols and say to molten images, 'You are our gods.'
  • 2 Kgs 19:18 : 18 They 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.
  • Ps 97:7 : 7 All who serve carved images and boast in idols are put to shame; bow down to Him, all you gods!
  • Ps 135:15-18 : 15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands. 16 They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes but cannot see. 17 They have ears but cannot hear; there is no breath in their mouths. 18 Those who make them will become like them; so will all who trust in them.
  • Isa 37:19 : 19 They 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.
  • Acts 19:35 : 35 When the city clerk had calmed the crowd, he said, "Men of Ephesus, who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of the image that fell from heaven?
  • 1 Cor 10:19-20 : 19 What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or that food sacrificed to idols is anything? 20 No, but what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become participants with demons.
  • Hos 8:6 : 6 This calf comes from Israel! A craftsman made it; it is not God. It will be shattered into pieces—this calf of Samaria.
  • Hab 2:18-20 : 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. 19 Woe 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. 20 But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 135:15-18
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    91%

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

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

    17 They have ears but cannot hear; there is no breath in their mouths.

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

  • Isa 2:8
    86%

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

  • Ps 115:7-8
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    80%

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

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

  • Ps 115:5
    79%

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

  • Isa 40:18-19
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    79%

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

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

  • Isa 44:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9 All 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.

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

  • Isa 37:19
    78%

    19 They 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 46:6
    78%

    6 They 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.

  • Jer 10:14-15
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    77%

    14 Everyone 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.

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

  • Isa 31:7
    76%

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

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    76%

    18 They 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.

  • Jer 51:17-18
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    76%

    17 Every 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.

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

  • Ps 115:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2 Why should the nations say, 'Where is their God?

    3 Our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases.

  • Hos 8:4
    76%

    4 They 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.

  • Deut 4:28
    76%

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

  • Ps 96:5
    76%

    5 For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.

  • Acts 7:41
    75%

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

  • Isa 44:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17 From 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.'

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

  • 1 Chr 16:26
    75%

    26 For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.

  • Deut 29:17
    75%

    17 Make sure there is no man or woman, family, or tribe among you whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of these nations. Make sure there is no root among you that produces poisonous and bitter fruit.

  • Hab 2:18-19
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    75%

    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.

    19 Woe 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.

  • Jer 10:8-9
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    8 They are all senseless and foolish; their instruction comes from worthless idols.

    9 Hammered 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.

  • 2 Chr 32:19
    75%

    19 They spoke about the God of Jerusalem as they did about the gods of the peoples of the earth—products of human hands.

  • Isa 17:8
    74%

    8 They 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.

  • Isa 41:29
    74%

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

  • Jer 16:20
    74%

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

  • Hos 13:2
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    2 Now they continue to sin and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully crafted from their silver, all of it the work of artisans. They say about them, 'Those who sacrifice kiss the calves!'

  • Isa 2:20
    74%

    20 On that day, people will throw away their silver idols and their gold idols, which they made to worship, to the moles and bats.

  • Ps 97:7
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    7 All who serve carved images and boast in idols are put to shame; bow down to Him, all you gods!

  • Jer 10:4
    73%

    4 They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with nails and hammers so it will not totter.

  • Rev 9:20
    73%

    20 The rest of humanity, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.

  • Isa 42:17
    72%

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

  • Mic 5:13
    72%

    13 I will uproot your Asherah poles from among you and demolish your cities.

  • Isa 2:18
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    18 The idols will completely vanish.

  • Exod 32:4
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    4 He took the gold from their hands, fashioned it with a tool, and made it into a molten calf. Then they said, "These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt."

  • Isa 45:16
    72%

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

  • Dan 5:4
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    4 They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.