Isaiah 44:10

World English Bible (2000)

Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 10:5 : 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."
  • Hab 2:18 : 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?
  • Acts 19:26 : 26 You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands.
  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
  • Dan 3:1 : 1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
  • Dan 3:14 : 14 Nebuchadnezzar answered them, Is it on purpose, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don't serve my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
  • 1 Kgs 12:28 : 28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and see your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!"
  • Isa 41:29 : 29 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

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  • Isa 44:9
    90%

    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.

  • Hab 2:18-19
    2 verses
    85%

    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.

  • Isa 40:18-20
    3 verses
    82%

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

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

    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.

  • Jer 10:14-15
    2 verses
    81%

    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.

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

  • Jer 51:17-18
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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.

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

  • Jer 16:20
    79%

    20 Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?

  • Ps 135:18
    78%

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

  • Ps 115:4
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    4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • Ps 115:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Isa 44:17-19
    3 verses
    78%

    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!"

    18 They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.

    19 No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, "I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?"

  • Isa 44:11
    77%

    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.

  • Isa 41:29
    77%

    29 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

  • Isa 46:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

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

    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.

  • Ps 135:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

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

    16 They have mouths, but they can't speak. They have eyes, but they can't see.

  • Isa 2:8
    75%

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

  • Jer 10:8-9
    2 verses
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    8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

    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.

  • Isa 44:15
    74%

    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.

  • Isa 45:16
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    16 They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.

  • Deut 27:15
    74%

    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.'

  • Isa 42:17
    74%

    17 "Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, 'You are our gods' will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.

  • Isa 37:19
    74%

    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.

  • Isa 41:24
    74%

    24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

  • Isa 29:16
    73%

    16 You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, "He didn't make me;" or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding?"

  • Hos 8:6
    73%

    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 20:4
    73%

    4 "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

  • Jer 2:11
    73%

    11 Has a nation changed [its] gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    73%

    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.

  • Deut 5:8
    72%

    8 "You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, [nor] any likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

  • Isa 17:8
    72%

    8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the incense altars.

  • Deut 4:16
    72%

    16 Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

  • Exod 34:17
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    17 "You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

  • Hos 8:4
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    4 They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn't approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.

  • Isa 45:9
    72%

    9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker-- a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, 'What are you making?' or your work, 'He has no hands?'

  • 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 45:20
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    20 "Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can't save.

  • Deut 4:28
    71%

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

  • Ps 97:7
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    7 Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!

  • Acts 7:41
    71%

    41 They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

  • Isa 54:16
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    16 "Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.