Isaiah 44:10
8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.
12 The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?
- KJV
- Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
- WEB
- Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?
- ASV
- Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
- DARBY
- Who hath formed a God, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
- BLB
- Who would fashion a god, or cast an idol, that gives no benefit?
- ÅB
- Hvem har dannet en gud og støpt et bilde - til ingen nytte?
- OTB
- Hvem former en gud eller støper et idol, som er til ingen nytte?
- B1930
- Hvem har dannet en gud og støpt et billede - til ingen nytte?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 10:5
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
Read in contextHabakkuk 2:18
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Read in contextActs 19:26
Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
Read in contextDaniel 3:1
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
Read in context1 Corinthians 8:4
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
Read in contextIsaiah 41:29
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
Read in context1 Kings 12:28
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Read in contextDaniel 3:14
Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
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