Isaiah 44:9
All of those who create idols are nothing, and their most beloved things will not benefit them. These are their witnesses, for they do not see, and they do not understand, so that they might be confounded.
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In The King James Version
In Context
10Who has formed a god or cast a molten image, which is useful for nothing?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:28And there, you will serve gods which were fabricated by the hands of men: gods of wood and of stone, who neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Judges 10:14Go, and call upon the gods whom you have chosen. Let them free you in the time of anguish.”
Psalms 97:7Let the sea be moved and all its fullness, the whole world and all who dwell in it.
Psalms 115:8I will sacrifice to you the sacrifice of praise, and I will invoke the name of the Lord.
Isaiah 2:20In that day, man shall cast aside his idols of silver and his images of gold, which he had made for himself, as if to reverence the moles and the bats.
Isaiah 41:24Behold, you exist out of nothing, and your work is from what does not exist; he who has chosen you is an abomination.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 44:2-9
Prosperity Foretold; The Supremacy of God. ( b. c. 708.) 1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen: 2 Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen. 3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: 4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water… Read the whole commentary →