Isaiah 41:24

Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work less than a breath: [he that is] an abomination [alone] chooseth you.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.

In Context

23Tell the events that are to happen hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be astonished, and see it together.

25I have waked up one from the north, and he cometh; from the rising of the sun one who will call on my name: and he shall [over-]come princes as mortar, and as the potter treadeth down the clay.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:25The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver or gold that is on them, so that thou wouldst take it unto thyself, lest thou be ensnared thereby; for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

Deuteronomy 27:15Cursed be the man who maketh a graven or molten image, the abomination of the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place; and all the people shall answer, and say, Amen.

Isaiah 37:19And they have placed their gods into the fire; for they are no gods, but the work of man's hands, wood and stone; and these have they destroyed.

Isaiah 44:9The makers of graven images are all vanity; and their costly idols cannot profit; and they are their own witnesses, that they see not and know not, in order that they may be ashamed.

Jeremiah 10:8But at once shall they be shown to be brutish and foolish: it is a doctrine of vanities, it concerneth but wood.

Jeremiah 51:17Then standeth every man as brutish without knowledge; ashamed is every goldsmith because of the graven image; for falsehood is his molten work, and there is no breath therein.

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 →

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