Isaiah 40:19
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?”
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“To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The image, a workman hath cast it, and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“The graven image poured out hath a artisan, And a refiner with gold spreadeth it over, And chains of silver he is refining.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 40:19 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 32:2So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”
- Judges 17:4So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.
- Psalms 115:4Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
- Psalms 135:15The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
- Psalms 135:18Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
- Isaiah 2:20In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold— the idols they made to worship.
- Isaiah 37:18Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all these countries and their lands.
- Isaiah 41:6Each one helps the other and says to his brother, “Be strong!”
- Isaiah 41:7The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who wields the hammer cheers him who strikes the anvil, saying of the welding, “It is good.” He nails it down so it will not be toppled.
- Isaiah 44:10Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?
- Isaiah 46:6They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.
- Jeremiah 10:3For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
- Jeremiah 10:9Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz— the work of a craftsman from the hands of a goldsmith. Their clothes are blue and purple, all fashioned by skilled workers.
- Hosea 8:6For this thing is from Israel— a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.
- Habakkuk 2:18What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it— or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
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