Psalms 115:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Ps 135:18 : 18 Those who make them will be like them; Yes, everyone who trusts in them.
  • Isa 44:9-9 : 9 Those 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. 10 Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing? 11 Behold, 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. 12 The 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. 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? 20 He 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?
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
  • Jonah 2:8 : 8 Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
  • 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 the midst of it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 135:15-18
    4 verses
    96%

    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.

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

  • Ps 115:4-5
    2 verses
    80%

    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;

  • Isa 44:9-11
    3 verses
    80%

    9 Those 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.

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

    11 Behold, 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.

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

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

  • Jer 51:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    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 10:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • 17 They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly disappointed, who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, You are our gods.

  • 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?

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

  • 16 They shall be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols.

  • Isa 44:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

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

  • 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.

  • Isa 40:18-20
    3 verses
    74%

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

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

    20 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.

  • 8 They 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 7 For 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.

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

  • 8 It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, Than to put confidence in man.

  • 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.

  • 11 You who fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield.

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

  • 15 Cursed 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.

  • 8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"

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

  • 29 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity [and] nothing; their molten images are wind and confusion.

  • 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.

  • 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:

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • 37 He will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;