Isaiah 44:9
They that form a graven image are all of them vanity, and their delectable things are of no profit; and they are their own witnesses: they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
10Who hath formed a God, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:28And ye shall there serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Judges 10:14Go and cry to the gods that ye have chosen: let them save you in the time of your trouble.
Psalms 97:7Ashamed be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols. Worship him, all ye gods.
Psalms 115:8They that make them are like unto them, every one that confideth in them.
Isaiah 2:20In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made [each] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Isaiah 41:24Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you.
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 →