Isaiah 42:17

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Those who trust in idols will turn back and be utterly humiliated, those who say to metal images,‘You are our gods.’”

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 97:7 : 7 All who worship idols are ashamed, those who boast about worthless idols. All the gods bow down before him.
  • Isa 1:29 : 29 Indeed, they will be ashamed of the sacred trees you find so desirable; you will be embarrassed because of the sacred orchards where you choose to worship.
  • Isa 44:11 : 11 Look, all his associates will be put to shame; the craftsmen are mere humans. Let them all assemble and take their stand! They will panic and be put to shame.
  • Isa 44:17 : 17 With the rest of it he makes a god, his idol; he bows down to it and worships it. He prays to it, saying,‘Rescue me, for you are my god!’
  • Isa 45:16-17 : 16 They will all be ashamed and embarrassed; those who fashion idols will all be humiliated. 17 Israel will be delivered once and for all by the LORD; you will never again be ashamed or humiliated.
  • Jer 2:26-27 : 26 Just as a thief has to suffer dishonor when he is caught, so the people of Israel will suffer dishonor for what they have done. So will their kings and officials, their priests and their prophets. 27 They say to a wooden idol,‘You are my father.’ They say to a stone image,‘You gave birth to me.’ Yes, they have turned away from me instead of turning to me. Yet when they are in trouble, they say,‘Come and save us!’
  • Hab 2:18-20 : 18 What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things? 19 Woe to the one who says to wood,‘Wake up!’– he who says to speechless stone,‘Awake!’ Can it give reliable guidance? It is overlaid with gold and silver; it has no life’s breath inside it. 20 But the LORD is in his majestic palace. The whole earth is speechless in his presence!”
  • Exod 32:4 : 4 He accepted the gold from them, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molten calf. Then they said,“These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
  • Exod 32:8 : 8 They have quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them– they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said,‘These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 45:16
    80%

    16They will all be ashamed and embarrassed; those who fashion idols will all be humiliated.

  • Isa 42:18
    79%

    18The Lord Reasons with His People“Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones!

  • Isa 44:9-11
    3 verses
    79%

    9All who form idols are nothing; the things in which they delight are worthless. Their witnesses cannot see; they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.

    10Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?

    11Look, all his associates will be put to shame; the craftsmen are mere humans. Let them all assemble and take their stand! They will panic and be put to shame.

  • Ps 97:7
    76%

    7All who worship idols are ashamed, those who boast about worthless idols. All the gods bow down before him.

  • Ps 115:8
    76%

    8Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.

  • Ps 135:18
    76%

    18Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.

  • Isa 42:16
    75%

    16I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. I will turn the darkness in front of them into light, and level out the rough ground. This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them.

  • Jer 2:26-28
    3 verses
    74%

    26Just as a thief has to suffer dishonor when he is caught, so the people of Israel will suffer dishonor for what they have done. So will their kings and officials, their priests and their prophets.

    27They say to a wooden idol,‘You are my father.’ They say to a stone image,‘You gave birth to me.’ Yes, they have turned away from me instead of turning to me. Yet when they are in trouble, they say,‘Come and save us!’

    28But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them save you when you are in trouble. The sad fact is that you have as many gods as you have towns, Judah.

  • Isa 44:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17With the rest of it he makes a god, his idol; he bows down to it and worships it. He prays to it, saying,‘Rescue me, for you are my god!’

    18They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.

  • Deut 32:37
    74%

    37He will say,“Where are their gods, the rock in whom they sought security,

  • Isa 17:8
    74%

    8They will no longer trust in the altars their hands made, or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made.

  • Hab 2:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things?

    19Woe to the one who says to wood,‘Wake up!’– he who says to speechless stone,‘Awake!’ Can it give reliable guidance? It is overlaid with gold and silver; it has no life’s breath inside it.

  • Jer 16:20
    73%

    20Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all.”

  • Jer 51:17-18
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    73%

    17All idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.

    18They are worthless, objects to be ridiculed. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

  • Isa 31:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6You Israelites! Return to the one against whom you have so blatantly rebelled!

    7For at that time everyone will get rid of the silver and gold idols your hands sinfully made.

  • Isa 37:19
    73%

    19They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.

  • Isa 2:8
    72%

    8Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned.

  • Ps 115:4
    72%

    4Their idols are made of silver and gold– they are man-made.

  • Isa 45:20
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    20Gather together and come! Approach together, you refugees from the nations! Those who carry wooden idols know nothing, those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
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    18They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.

  • Isa 30:22
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    22You will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them,“Get out!”

  • Jer 10:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.

    15They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

  • Deut 4:28
    72%

    28There you will worship gods made by human hands– wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

  • Ps 135:15
    72%

    15The nations’ idols are made of silver and gold, they are man-made.

  • Exod 32:8
    71%

    8They have quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them– they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said,‘These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”

  • Isa 46:6
    71%

    6Those who empty out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scale hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god. They then bow down and worship it.

  • Isa 40:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18To whom can you compare God? To what image can you liken him?

    19A craftsman casts an idol; a metalsmith overlays it with gold and forges silver chains for it.

  • Isa 1:29
    70%

    29Indeed, they will be ashamed of the sacred trees you find so desirable; you will be embarrassed because of the sacred orchards where you choose to worship.

  • Deut 31:18
    70%

    18But I will certainly hide myself at that time because of all the wickedness they will have done by turning to other gods.

  • Isa 2:20
    70%

    20At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live,

  • Jer 50:38
    70%

    38A drought will come upon her land; her rivers and canals will be dried up. All of this will happen because her land is filled with idols. Her people act like madmen because of those idols they fear.

  • Jer 2:11
    70%

    11Has a nation ever changed its gods(even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all!

  • Ezek 20:32
    70%

    32“‘What you plan will never happen. You say,“We will be like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone.”

  • Hos 10:2
    70%

    2Their hearts are slipping; soon they will be punished for their guilt. The LORD will break their altars; he will completely destroy their fertility pillars.

  • Isa 2:18
    70%

    18The worthless idols will be completely eliminated.

  • Deut 29:17
    70%

    17You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.)

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    70%

    12They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.

  • Ps 70:3
    70%

    3May those who say,“Aha! Aha!” be driven back and disgraced!

  • Zeph 1:6
    69%

    6and those who turn their backs on the LORD and do not want the LORD’s help or guidance.”