Isaiah 44:10
Who hath formed el (g-d), or molded a pesel to no profit?
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 12:28Whereupon HaMelech took counsel, and made two eglei zahav (calves of gold), and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Yerushalayim; hinei, eloheicha, O Yisroel, which brought thee up out of Eretz Mitzrayim.
Isaiah 41:29See, they + 41:29 the idols are all aven (wickedness); 1 their ma'asim are nothing; 1 their molten images are ruach and tohu.
Jeremiah 10:5They + 10:5 the idols are upright as the tomer (palm tree), 1 but speak not; 1 they must needs be carried, 1 because they cannot go. 1 Be not afraid of them; 1 for they cannot do rah, 1 neither also is it in them to do tov. 1
Daniel 3:14Nevukhadnetzar spoke and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do ye not serve my g-ds, nor worship the golden tzelem which I have set up?
Acts 19:26And you see and hear that not only here in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Rav Sha'ul has persuaded and drawn away a large multitude saying, Elilim made with human hands are not Elohim. + 19:26 Dt 4:28; Ps 115:4; Isa 44:10-20; Jer 10:3-5
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 44:10-21
The Folly of Idolatry. ( b. c. 708.) 9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. 10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? 11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together. 12 The smith with the… Read the whole commentary →