Isaiah 44:10

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 10:5 : 5 Such idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field. They cannot talk. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them because they cannot hurt you. And they do not have any power to help you.”
  • Hab 2:18 : 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?
  • Acts 19:26 : 26 And you see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and turned away a large crowd, not only in Ephesus but in practically all of the province of Asia, by saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all.
  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that“an idol in this world is nothing,” and that“there is no God but one.”
  • Dan 3:1 : 1 Daniel’s Friends Are Tested King Nebuchadnezzar had a golden statue made. It was 90 feet tall and nine feet wide. He erected it on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
  • Dan 3:14 : 14 Nebuchadnezzar said to them,“Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don’t serve my gods and that you don’t pay homage to the golden statue that I erected?
  • 1 Kgs 12:28 : 28 After the king had consulted with his advisers, he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people,“It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”
  • Isa 41:29 : 29 Look, all of them are nothing, their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 44:9
    90%

    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.

  • Hab 2:18-19
    2 verses
    85%

    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.

  • Isa 40:18-20
    3 verses
    82%

    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.

    20To make a contribution one selects wood that will not rot; he then seeks a skilled craftsman to make an idol that will not fall over.

  • Jer 10:14-15
    2 verses
    81%

    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.

  • Jer 51:17-18
    2 verses
    80%

    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.

  • Jer 16:20
    79%

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

  • Ps 135:18
    78%

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

  • Ps 115:4
    78%

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

  • Ps 115:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7hands, but cannot touch, feet, but cannot walk. They cannot even clear their throats.

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

  • Isa 44:17-19
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

    19No one thinks to himself, nor do they comprehend or understand and say to themselves:‘I burned half of it in the fire– yes, I baked bread over the coals; I roasted meat and ate it. With the rest of it should I make a disgusting idol? Should I bow down to dry wood?’

  • Isa 44:11
    77%

    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.

  • Isa 41:29
    77%

    29Look, all of them are nothing, their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance.

  • Isa 46:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5To whom can you compare and liken me? Tell me whom you think I resemble, so we can be compared!

    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.

  • Ps 135:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

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

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

  • Isa 2:8
    75%

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

  • Jer 10:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!

    9Hammered-out silver is brought from Tarshish and gold is brought from Ufaz to cover those idols. They are the handiwork of carpenters and goldsmiths. They are clothed in blue and purple clothes. They are all made by skillful workers.

  • Isa 44:15
    74%

    15A man uses it to make a fire; he takes some of it and warms himself. Yes, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Then he 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 embarrassed; those who fashion idols will all be humiliated.

  • Deut 27:15
    74%

    15‘Cursed is the one who makes a carved or metal image– something abhorrent to the LORD, the work of the craftsman– and sets it up in a secret place.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’

  • Isa 42:17
    74%

    17Those who trust in idols will turn back and be utterly humiliated, those who say to metal images,‘You are our gods.’”

  • Isa 37:19
    74%

    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 41:24
    74%

    24Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent; the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting.

  • Isa 29:16
    73%

    16Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker,“He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter,“He doesn’t understand”?

  • Hos 8:6
    73%

    6That idol was made by a workman– it is not God! The calf idol of Samaria will be broken to bits.

  • Exod 20:4
    73%

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

  • Jer 2:11
    73%

    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!

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    73%

    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.

  • Deut 5:8
    72%

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

  • Isa 17:8
    72%

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

  • Deut 4:16
    72%

    16I say this so you will not corrupt yourselves by making an image in the form of any kind of figure. This includes the likeness of a human male or female,

  • Exod 34:17
    72%

    17You must not make yourselves molten gods.

  • Hos 8:4
    72%

    4The Political and Cultic Sin of Israel They enthroned kings without my consent! They appointed princes without my approval! They made idols out of their silver and gold, but they will be destroyed!

  • Isa 45:9
    72%

    9The Lord Gives a Warning One who argues with his Creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter,“What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!”

  • Isa 31:7
    72%

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

  • Isa 45:20
    72%

    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.

  • Deut 4:28
    71%

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

  • Ps 97:7
    71%

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

  • Acts 7:41
    71%

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

  • Isa 54:16
    70%

    16Look, I create the craftsman, who fans the coals into a fire and forges a weapon. I create the destroyer so he might devastate.