Isaiah 44:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?”
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BSBPD
“Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out--not profitable?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Isaiah 44:10 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 12:28After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
- Psalms 115:4Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
- Isaiah 41:29See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
- Isaiah 45:20Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.
- Jeremiah 10:5Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and neither can they do any good.”
- Daniel 3:1King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
- Daniel 3:14and Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, is it true that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden statue I have set up?
- 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.
- Acts 19:26And you can see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in nearly the whole province of Asia, Paul has persuaded a great number of people to turn away. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all.
- 1 Corinthians 8:4So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
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