Psalms 135:15

World English Bible (2000)

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

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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.
  • Isa 37:19 : 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 40:19-20 : 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.
  • Isa 44:9-9 : 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. 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. 13 The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to reside in a house. 14 He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it. 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. 16 He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it, he eats meat. He roasts a roast, and is satisfied. Yes, he warms himself, and says, "Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire." 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?" 20 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, "Isn't there a lie in my right hand?"
  • 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 10:3-9 : 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." 6 There is none like you, Yahweh; you are great, and your name is great in might. 7 Who should not fear you, King of the nations? For it appertains to you; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like you. 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. 10 But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to withstand his indignation. 11 You shall say this to them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.
  • 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.
  • Acts 17:29 : 29 Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
  • Deut 4:28 : 28 There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

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  • Ps 115:4-5
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    4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

    5They have mouths, but they don't speak. They have eyes, but they don't see.

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

  • Ps 135:16-18
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    16They have mouths, but they can't speak. They have eyes, but they can't see.

    17They have ears, but they can't hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

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

  • Isa 40:18-19
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    18To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

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

  • Isa 31:7
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    7For 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.

  • Ps 115:7-8
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    7They have hands, but they don't feel. They have feet, but they don't walk, neither do they speak through their throat.

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

  • Isa 46:6
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    6Some 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.

  • Jer 10:14-15
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    14Every 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.

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

  • Isa 37:19
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    19and 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 44:9-10
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    9Everyone 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.

    10Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?

  • 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?

    19Woe 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.

  • 1 Chr 16:26
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    26For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.

  • Jer 51:17-18
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    17Every 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.

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

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

    9There 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.

  • Deut 29:17
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    17and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

  • Ps 96:5
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    5For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.

  • Deut 4:28
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    28There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

  • Isa 2:20
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    20In 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;

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    8They 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.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
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    18and 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 44:17
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    17The 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!"

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

  • Hos 13:2
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    2Now 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.'

  • 2 Chr 32:19
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    19They spoke of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.

  • Mic 5:13
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    13I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out of your midst; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.

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

  • 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.'

  • Hos 8:4
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    4They 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 45:16
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    16They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.

  • Isa 2:18
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    18The idols shall utterly pass away.

  • Deut 7:25
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    25You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

  • Ps 135:14
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    14For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants.

  • 1 Chr 29:5
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    5of 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?"

  • Acts 7:41
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    41They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
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    12and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

  • Exod 20:23
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    23You shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of silver, or gods of gold for yourselves.

  • Jer 10:3
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    3For 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.

  • Rev 9:20
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    20The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn't repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn't worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.

  • Isa 41:29
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    29Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

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