Isaiah 44:9
They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses see not, nor know: that they may be put to shame.
ASV Byzantine Text
In The King James Version
In Context
10Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:28And there ye shall 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 unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.
Psalms 97:7Let all them be put to shame that serve graven images, That boast themselves of idols: Worship him, all ye gods.
Psalms 115:8They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, everyone that trusteth in them.
Isaiah 2:20In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Isaiah 41:24Behold, ye are of 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 →