Isaiah 44:9
The 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.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
10Who hath formed a god, or cast an image that profiteth nothing?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:28And ye will serve there gods, the work of man's hands, wood and stone, which neither can see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Judges 10:14Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let these deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
Psalms 97:7Made ashamed shall be all that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: unto him bow down all the gods.
Psalms 115:8Like them are those that make them, every one that trusteth in them.
Isaiah 2:20On that day shall a man cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which have been made for him to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Isaiah 41:24Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work less than a breath: [he that is] an abomination [alone] 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 →