Psalms 135:18

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 97:7 : 7 Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!
  • Ps 115:8 : 8 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.
  • Isa 44:18-20 : 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?"
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
  • 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

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  • Ps 115:7-9
    3 verses
    96%

    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.

    9 Israel, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield.

  • Isa 44:9-11
    3 verses
    80%

    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.

  • Ps 135:15-17
    3 verses
    80%

    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.

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

  • Ps 115:4-5
    2 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Jer 51:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Hab 2:18-19
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Jer 10:14-15
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Isa 2:8
    77%

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

  • Isa 42:17-18
    2 verses
    76%

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

    18 "Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.

  • Isa 45:16
    75%

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

  • Jer 16:20
    75%

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

  • Isa 44:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Isa 40:18-20
    3 verses
    75%

    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 10:8
    73%

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

  • Isa 46:6
    73%

    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.

  • Jer 17:5
    73%

    5 Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

  • Deut 27:15
    72%

    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.'

  • Ps 40:4
    72%

    4 Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

  • Ps 97:7
    72%

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

  • Isa 41:29
    72%

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

  • Isa 17:8
    71%

    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.

  • Hos 13:2
    71%

    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.'

  • Isa 37:19
    71%

    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.

  • Ps 125:1
    71%

    1 Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can't be moved, but remains forever.

  • Hos 8:6
    71%

    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.

  • Jer 7:8
    70%

    8 Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    70%

    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.

  • Isa 31:7
    70%

    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 44:15
    70%

    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.

  • Deut 4:28
    70%

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

  • 1 Chr 16:26
    69%

    26 For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.

  • Ps 49:6
    69%

    6 Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches--

  • Acts 7:41
    69%

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

  • Ps 135:19
    69%

    19 House of Israel, praise Yahweh! House of Aaron, praise Yahweh!