Isaiah 40:20

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • 1 Sam 5:3-4 : 3 When they of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon was fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh. They took Dagon, and set him in his place again. 4 When they arose early on the next day morning, behold, Dagon was fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands [lay] cut off on the threshold; only [the stump of] Dagon was left to him.
  • Isa 41:7 : 7 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith, [and] he who smoothes with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he fastens it with nails, that is should not be moved.
  • Isa 46:7 : 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 10:3-4 : 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.
  • Dan 5:23 : 23 but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.
  • Isa 2:8-9 : 8 Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, That which their own fingers have made. 9 Man is brought low, And mankind is humbled; Therefore don't forgive them.
  • Isa 44:13-19 : 13 The carpenter stretches out a line; he marks it out with a pencil; he shapes it with planes, and he marks it out with the compasses, and shapes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell 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 shall it be for a man to burn; and he takes of it, and warms himself; yes, he kindles 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 flesh; he roasts roast, and is satisfied; yes, he warms himself, and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire. 17 The residue of it he makes a god, even his engraved image; he falls 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 None calls to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 40:18-19
    2 verses
    81%

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

    19The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.

  • Isa 44:9-12
    4 verses
    78%

    9Those who fashion an engraved image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses don't see, nor know: that they may be disappointed.

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

    11Behold, all his fellows shall be disappointed; and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; they shall fear, they shall be put to shame together.

    12The smith [makes] an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.

  • Hab 2:18-19
    2 verses
    76%

    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 the midst of it.

  • Isa 44:17
    76%

    17The residue of it he makes a god, even his engraved image; he falls down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me; for you are my god.

  • Jer 10:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

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

  • Isa 44:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    14He 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.

    15Then shall it be for a man to burn; and he takes of it, and warms himself; yes, he kindles it, and bakes bread: yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved image, and falls down to it.

  • Isa 46:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

    7They 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 51:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    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 10:14
    73%

    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.

  • Isa 17:8
    73%

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

  • Isa 2:8
    72%

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

  • Isa 44:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19None calls to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

    20He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

  • Ps 135:15
    71%

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

  • Isa 45:20
    71%

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

  • Ps 135:18
    71%

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

  • Deut 4:28
    71%

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

  • Ps 115:8
    71%

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

  • Jer 16:20
    71%

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

  • Ps 115:4
    70%

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

  • Ezek 20:32
    70%

    32and that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in that you say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

  • Ezek 15:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3Shall wood be taken of it to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

    4Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned: is it profitable for any work?

  • Ps 52:7
    70%

    7"Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness."

  • Jer 10:8
    70%

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

  • Isa 41:24
    69%

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

  • Isa 10:15
    69%

    15Shall the axe boast itself against him who hews therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? as if a rod should wield those who lift it up, [or] as if a staff should lift up [him who is] not wood.

  • Exod 35:33
    69%

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

  • Isa 41:7
    69%

    7So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith, [and] he who smoothes with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he fastens it with nails, that is should not be moved.

  • Deut 27:15
    69%

    15Cursed be 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 2:20
    69%

    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;

  • Isa 31:7
    69%

    7For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made to you for a sin.

  • Hos 10:1
    68%

    1Israel is a luxuriant vine that puts forth his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.

  • Isa 40:21
    68%

    21Have you not known? have yet not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

  • Prov 28:19
    68%

    19One who works his land will have an abundance of food; But one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

  • 1 Chr 29:5
    68%

    5of gold for the [things of] gold, and of silver for the [things of] silver, and for all manner of work [to be made] by the hands of artificers. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself this day to Yahweh?

  • Ezek 7:20
    68%

    20As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations [and] their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it to them as an unclean thing.

  • Exod 31:4
    68%

    4to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

  • Isa 27:11
    68%

    11When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

  • Prov 13:7
    68%

    7There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

  • Isa 27:9
    68%

    9Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.