Isaiah 40:19
To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?
Berean Standard Bible
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In Context
18To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?
Cross References
Exodus 32:2So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”
Psalms 115:4Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
Psalms 135:18Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
Isaiah 37:18Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all these countries and their lands.
Isaiah 41:7The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who wields the hammer cheers him who strikes the anvil, saying of the welding, “It is good.” He nails it down so it will not be toppled.
Isaiah 46:6They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 40:19-27
Vanity of Idols. ( b. c. 708.) 18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? 19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. 20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. 21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from… Read the whole commentary →