Isaiah 41:29
Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:21and turn ye not aside; for then should ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
Psalms 115:4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Isaiah 41:24Behold, ye are nothing, and your work a thing of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you.
Isaiah 46:7He is borne upon the shoulder, he is carried, and set in his place, and he standeth, from his place he doth not remove; yea, though one cry unto him, he cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
Jeremiah 10:2thus saith the LORD: Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them.
Zechariah 10:2For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and the dreams speak falsely, they comfort in vain; therefore they go their way like sheep, they are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 41:22-29
Idolatry Exposed. ( b. c. 708.) 21 Produce your cause, saith the Lord ; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. 22 Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. 23 Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. 24 Behold, ye are of nothing,… Read the whole commentary →