Isaiah 44:19

They can't think things over, they don't have the wisdom or the understanding to say, “Some of the wood I burned in the fire—I used it to bake my bread and roast my meat to eat. The rest of it I used to make a disgusting idol, and I bow down in worship to a block of wood.”

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In The King James Version

And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

In Context

18How ignorant they are, how dumb! Their eyes have been plastered over so they can't see, their minds closed so they don't have insight.

20He is feeding on ashes, seduced by the deceptive thinking of his mind. He can't save himself, and he doesn't even ask, “Isn't this idol I'm holding just a lie?”

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Cross References

Exodus 7:23Pharaoh went back to his palace and didn't pay any attention to what had happened.

Deuteronomy 32:46he told them, “Think about all these words I've declared to you today, so you can order your children to follow carefully everything in this law.

1 Kings 11:7It was then that Solomon built a high place of worship for Chemosh, the vile god of the people of Moab, and for Molech, the vile god of the Ammonites, on a hill east of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 5:13As a result my people will be exiled for their lack of understanding. Their honored leaders will starve, and the crowds will be dying of thirst.

Isaiah 46:8Remember this, and act like men! Think about it, you rebels!

Hosea 7:2But they don't realize that I remember all of their wickedness. Their sins surround them and are always before me.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 44:10-21

The Folly of Idolatry. ( b. c. 708.) 9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. 10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? 11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together. 12 The smith with the… Read the whole commentary →

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