Isaiah 40:19

World English Bible (2000)

A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.

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  • Ps 115:4-8 : 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 5 They have mouths, but they don't speak. They have eyes, but they don't see. 6 They have ears, but they don't hear. They have noses, but they don't smell. 7 They have hands, but they don't feel. They have feet, but they don't walk, neither do they speak through their throat. 8 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.
  • Jer 10:9 : 9 There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men.
  • Hab 2:18-19 : 18 "What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols? 19 Woe to him who says to the wood, 'Awake!' or to the mute stone, 'Arise!' Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in its midst.
  • Hos 8:6 : 6 For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
  • Ps 135:15 : 15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
  • Ps 135:18 : 18 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.
  • Isa 2:20 : 20 In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
  • Isa 37:18-19 : 18 Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land, 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.
  • Exod 32:2-4 : 2 Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me." 3 All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. 4 He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, "These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt."
  • Judg 17:4 : 4 When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred [pieces] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it an engraved image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah.
  • Isa 44:10-12 : 10 Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing? 11 Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They will fear. They will be put to shame together. 12 The blacksmith takes an axe, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.
  • Isa 46:6-7 : 6 Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down--yes, they worship. 7 They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands, from its place it shall not move: yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
  • Jer 10:3-5 : 3 For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move. 5 They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good."
  • Isa 41:6-7 : 6 Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, "Be strong!" 7 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good;" and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.

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    5 "To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

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  • Isa 44:9-12
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    9 Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don't see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

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    12 The blacksmith takes an axe, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.

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    20 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.

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

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

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    9 There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men.

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

  • Exod 31:4-5
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    4 to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

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  • Hab 2:18-19
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    18 "What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

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  • Exod 35:32-33
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    32 and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in brass,

    33 in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.

  • Jer 51:17
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    17 Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

  • Jer 10:14
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    14 Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

  • Exod 25:39
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    39 It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories.

  • 1 Chr 29:5
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    5 of gold for the [things of] gold, and of silver for the [things of] silver, and for all kinds of work [to be made] by the hands of artificers. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself this day to Yahweh?"

  • Jer 10:4
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    4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.

  • Isa 41:7
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    7 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good;" and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.

  • Isa 44:17
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    17 The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, "Deliver me; for you are my god!"

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    18 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

  • Isa 2:8
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    8 Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.

  • Exod 28:14
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    14 and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords of braided work: and you shall put the braided chains on the settings.

  • Exod 39:15
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    15 They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.

  • Exod 39:3
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    3 They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, in the purple, in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman.

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    15 Then it will be for a man to burn; and he takes some of it, and warms himself. Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread. Yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved image, and falls down to it.

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    8 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

  • Isa 31:7
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    7 For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold--sin which your own hands have made for you.

  • Isa 30:22
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    22 You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, "Go away!"

  • Song 1:11
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    11 We will make you earrings of gold, with studs of silver. Beloved

  • Exod 37:24
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    24 He made it of a talent of pure gold, with all its vessels.

  • Deut 27:15
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    15 'Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' All the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'

  • Jer 16:20
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    20 Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?

  • Isa 3:19
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    19 the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,

  • Exod 37:22
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    22 Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.

  • Exod 28:22
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    22 You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.

  • Hos 13:2
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    2 Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, 'They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.'

  • Exod 37:17
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    17 He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of beaten work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers were of one piece with it.

  • Prov 25:4
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    4 Take away the dross from the silver, and material comes out for the refiner;

  • Hos 8:6
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    6 For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

  • Exod 25:31
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    31 "You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.

  • Exod 37:2
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    2 He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold for it around it.

  • 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.

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    11 I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.

  • Exod 37:12
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    12 He made a border of a handbreadth around it, and made a golden molding on its border around it.

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    36 Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.