Isaiah 44:9
Framers of a carved image, all of them [are] emptiness, || And their desirable things do not profit, || And they [are] their own witnesses, || They do not see, nor know, that they may be ashamed.
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In Context
10Who has formed a god, || And poured out a molten image—not profitable?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:28and you have served gods there, work of man’s hands, wood and stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Judges 10:14Go and cry to the gods on which you have fixed; they save you in the time of your tribulation.”
Psalms 97:7All servants of a carved image are ashamed, || Those boasting themselves in idols, || Bow yourselves to Him, all you gods.
Psalms 115:8Nor do they mutter through their throat, || Their makers are like them, || Everyone who is trusting in them.
Isaiah 2:20In that day man casts his idols of silver, || And his idols of gold, || That they have made for him to worship, || To moles, and to bats,
Isaiah 41:24Behold, you [are] of nothing, and your work of nothing, || An abomination—it fixes on 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 →