Isaiah 42:17

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

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  • Ps 97:7 : 7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
  • Isa 1:29 : 29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
  • Isa 44:11 : 11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.
  • Isa 44:17 : 17 And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.
  • Isa 45:16-17 : 16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols. 17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
  • Jer 2:26-27 : 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, 27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
  • Hab 2:18-20 : 18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? 19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. 20 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
  • Exod 32:4 : 4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
  • Exod 32:8 : 8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

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  • 16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

  • 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

  • Isa 44:9-11
    3 verses
    79%

    9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

    10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

    11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.

  • 7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.

  • 8 They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

  • 18 They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.

  • 16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

  • Jer 2:26-28
    3 verses
    74%

    26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,

    27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

    28 But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.

  • Isa 44:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17 And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.

    18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

  • 37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

  • 8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

  • Hab 2:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

    19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

  • 20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?

  • Jer 51:17-18
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    73%

    17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

    18 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  • Isa 31:6-7
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    73%

    6 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

    7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

  • 19 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

  • 8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

  • 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • 20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

  • 18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

  • 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.

  • Jer 10:14-15
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    72%

    14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

    15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  • 28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

  • 15 The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • 8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

  • 6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

  • Isa 40:18-19
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    18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

    19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

  • 29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

  • 18 And I will surely hi my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.

  • 20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

  • 38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.

  • 11 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

  • 32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

  • 2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

  • 18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

  • 17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

  • 12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

  • 3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.

  • 6 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for him.