Psalms 115:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

Those who make them are like them; so is everyone who trusts in them.

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  • Ps 135:18 : 18 Those who make them are like them: so is everyone that trusts in them.
  • Isa 44:9-9 : 9 Those who make a carved image are all of them vanity; and their delightful things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. 10 Who has formed a god, or cast a carved 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. 12 The smith with the tongs both works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with the strength of his arms: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails: he drinks no water, and is faint. 13 The carpenter stretches out his rule; he marks it out with a line; he fits it with planes, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house. 14 He cuts down cedars, and takes the cypress and the oak, which he strengthens for himself among the trees of the forest: he plants an ash, and the rain nourishes it. 15 Then it shall be for a man to burn: for he will take of it, and warm himself; yes, he kindles it, and bakes bread; yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it a carved image, and falls down to it. 16 He burns part of it in the fire; with part of it he eats flesh; he roasts a roast, and is satisfied: yes, he warms himself, and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire: 17 And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his carved image: he falls down to it, and worships it, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me, for you are my god. 18 They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand. 19 And none considers in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the rest of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stump of a tree? 20 He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.
  • Jonah 2:8 : 8 Those who regard worthless idols forsake their own mercy.
  • Hab 2:18-19 : 18 What profit is the carved image that its maker has carved it; the molded image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make mute idols? 19 Woe to him who says to the wood, Awake; to the mute stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in its midst.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 135:15-18
    4 verses
    96%

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

    16 They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes have they, but they do not see;

    17 They have ears, but they do not hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

    18 Those who make them are like them: so is everyone that trusts in them.

  • Ps 115:4-5
    2 verses
    80%

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

    5 They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes they have, but they do not see;

  • Isa 44:9-11
    3 verses
    80%

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

    10 Who has formed a god, or cast a carved 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.

  • Ps 115:7
    80%

    7 They have hands, but they do not handle; feet they have, but they do not walk; nor do they speak through their throat.

  • Isa 2:8
    80%

    8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, what their own fingers have made.

  • Ps 115:9
    77%

    9 O Israel, trust in the LORD; He is their help and their shield.

  • Jer 51:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17 Every man is senseless by his knowledge; every craftsman is put to shame 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.

  • Jer 10:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is humiliated 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.

  • Isa 42:17
    76%

    17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in carved images, that say to the molded images, 'You are our gods.'

  • Hab 2:18
    76%

    18 What profit is the carved image that its maker has carved it; the molded image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make mute idols?

  • Jer 16:20
    75%

    20 Shall a man make gods for himself, which are not gods?

  • Isa 45:16
    75%

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

  • Isa 44:17-18
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    75%

    17 And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his carved image: he falls down to it, and worships it, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me, for you are my god.

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

  • Jer 10:8
    74%

    8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.

  • Isa 46:6
    74%

    6 They pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver on the scales, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god: they fall down, yes, they worship.

  • Isa 40:18-20
    3 verses
    74%

    18 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

    19 The workman molds a graven image, the goldsmith covers it with gold and casts silver chains.

    20 He who is so impoverished that he has no offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks for himself a skillful workman to prepare a graven image that will not be moved.

  • Isa 17:8
    73%

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

  • Hos 8:6
    73%

    6 For it is from Israel; the workman made it, and it is not God. But the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

  • Jer 17:5
    73%

    5 Thus says the LORD; Cursed is the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart departs from the LORD.

  • Jer 7:8
    73%

    8 Behold, you trust in deceptive words that cannot profit.

  • Ps 97:7
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    7 Confounded be all who serve carved images, who boast of idols: worship him, all you gods.

  • Isa 37:19
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    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.

  • Ps 40:4
    72%

    4 Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust and does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

  • Isa 31:7
    72%

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

  • Ps 125:1
    72%

    1 Those who trust in the LORD shall be like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but endures forever.

  • Ps 118:8
    72%

    8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.

  • Hos 8:4
    72%

    4 They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I did not acknowledge it. From their silver and their gold, they have made idols for themselves, that they may be cut off.

  • Ps 115:11
    71%

    11 You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD; He is their help and their shield.

  • Acts 7:41
    71%

    41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifices to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

  • Deut 27:15
    71%

    15 Cursed be the man that makes any graven or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and puts it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

  • Exod 32:8
    71%

    8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made a molten calf, have worshiped it, have sacrificed to it, and have said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"

  • Deut 4:28
    71%

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

  • Isa 41:29
    71%

    29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    71%

    18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

  • Deut 5:8
    71%

    8 You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

  • Hos 13:2
    71%

    2 And now they sin more and more, and have made molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

  • Isa 44:15
    70%

    15 Then it shall be for a man to burn: for he will take of it, and warm himself; yes, he kindles it, and bakes bread; yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it a carved image, and falls down to it.

  • Deut 32:37
    70%

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