Isaiah 41:29
“Behold, all of them [are] vanity, || Their works [are] nothing, || Their molten images [are] wind and emptiness!”
Literal Standard Version
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 you do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they [are] vain,
Psalms 115:4Their idols [are] silver and gold, work of man’s hands,
Isaiah 41:24Behold, you [are] of nothing, and your work of nothing, || An abomination—it fixes on you.
Isaiah 46:7They lift him up on the shoulder, || They carry him, and cause him to rest in his place, || And he stands, he does not move from his place, || Indeed, one cries to him, and he does not answer, || He does not save him from his adversity.
Jeremiah 10:2Thus said YHWH: “Do not accustom yourselves to the way of the nations, || And do not be frightened by the signs of the heavens, || For the nations are frightened by them.
Zechariah 10:2Because the teraphim spoke iniquity, || And the diviners have seen a falsehood, || And dreams of the vanity they speak, || [With] vanity they give comfort, || Therefore they have journeyed as a flock, || They are afflicted, for 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 →