Isaiah 40:19
The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
18To whom then will ye liken God? Or what likeness will ye compare to him?
Cross References
Exodus 32:2And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.
Psalms 115:4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psalms 135:18Those who make them shall be like them, yea, everyone who trusts in them.
Isaiah 37:18Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries, and their land,
Isaiah 41:7So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith, he who smoothes with the hammer, him who smites the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good, and he fastens it with nails, that it should not be moved.
Isaiah 46:6Such as lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, they hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down, yea, they worship.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 40:19-27
Vanity of Idols. ( b. c. 708.) 18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? 19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. 20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. 21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from… Read the whole commentary →