Isaiah 42:17
But they are turned back: be ye utterly ashamed that trust in graven images, who say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
18Hear, ye deaf, and look up, ye blind, to see.
Cross References
Exodus 32:8they have quickly gone out of the way which thou commandedst; they have made for themselves a calf, and worshiped it, and sacrificed to it, and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Psalms 135:18And slew mighty kings; 1 For his mercy endures forever: 1
Isaiah 44:9But they that framed false gods did not then hearken; 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 thou art 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 →