Isaiah 44:9
The makers of idols are all of them nothing, and their best beloved things shall not profit them. They are their witnesses, that they do not see, nor understand, that they may be ashamed.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
10Who hath formed a god, and made a graven thing that is profitable for nothing?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:28And there you shah serve gods, that were framed with men's hands: wood and stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Judges 10:14Go and call upon the gods which you have chosen: let them deliver you in the time of distress.
Psalms 97:7Let them be all confounded that adore graven things, and that glory in their idols. Adore him, all you his angels:
Psalms 115:8For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling.
Isaiah 2:20In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.
Isaiah 41:24Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath 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 →