Isaiah 42:17

But they are turned back: be you⌃ utterly ashamed that trust in graven images, who say to the molten images, You⌃ are our gods.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

In Context

16And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, and I will cause them to tread paths which they have not known: I will turn darkness into light for them, and crooked things into straight. These things will I do, and will not forsake them.

18Hear, you⌃ deaf, and look up, you⌃ blind, to see.

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Cross References

Exodus 32:8they have quickly gone out of the way which you commanded; they have made for themselves a calf, and worshipped it, and sacrificed to it, and said,

Psalms 135:18and killed mighty kings; for his mercy endures for ever: 1

Isaiah 44:9But they that framed false gods did not then listen; and they that graved images are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall be ashamed

Isaiah 44:17And the rest he makes a graven god, and worships, and prays, saying, Deliver me; for you are my God.

Jeremiah 2:26As is the shame of a thief when he is caught, so shall the children of Israel be ashamed; they, and their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 42:14-18

Judgment and Mercy. ( b. c. 708.) 13 The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. 14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. 15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. 16 And I will bring the blind by a way that… Read the whole commentary →

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