Isaiah 41:29
Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:21And do not go from the right way turning to those false gods in which there is no profit and no salvation, for they are false.
Psalms 115:4Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Isaiah 41:24But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish is he who takes you for his gods.
Isaiah 46:7They put him on their backs, and take him up, and put him in his fixed place, from which he may not be moved; if a man gives a cry for help to him, he is unable to give an answer, or get him out of his trouble.
Jeremiah 10:2This is what the Lord has said: Do not go in the way of the nations; have no fear of the signs of heaven, for the nations go in fear of them.
Zechariah 10:2For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 41:22-29
Idolatry Exposed. ( b. c. 708.) 21 Produce your cause, saith the Lord ; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. 22 Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. 23 Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. 24 Behold, ye are of nothing,… Read the whole commentary →