Isaiah 40:19
Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, gilded it over, and made it a similitude?
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
18To whom have ye compared the Lord? and with what likeness have ye compared him?
Cross References
Exodus 32:2And Aaron says to them, Take off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives and daughters, and bring them to me.
Psalms 115:4I will take the cup of salvation, 1 And call upon the name of the Lord. 1
Psalms 135:18And slew mighty kings; 1 For his mercy endures forever: 1
Isaiah 37:18For of a truth, Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste the whole world, and the countries thereof,
Isaiah 41:7The artificer has become strong, and the coppersmith that smites with the hammer, and forges also: sometimes he will say, It is a piece well joined: they have fastened them with nails; they will fix them, and they shall not be moved.
Isaiah 46:6They that furnish gold out of a purse, and silver by weight, will weigh it in a scale, and they hire a goldsmith and make idols, and bow down, and worship them.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 40:19-27
Vanity of Idols. ( b. c. 708.) 18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? 19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. 20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. 21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from… Read the whole commentary →