Isaiah 44:9

Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. 2 The things that they delight in will not profit. 2 Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed. 1

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

8Don’t fear, 2 neither be afraid. 1 Haven’t I sh'ma ·heard obeyed, declared· it to you long ago, 2 and shown it? 1 You are my witnesses. 2 Is there a God besides me? 1 Indeed, there is not. 2 I don’t know any other Rock.” 1

10Who has fashioned a deity, 2 or molds an image that is profitable for nothing? 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:28There you shall abad ·serve· deities, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor sh'ma ·hear obey·, nor eat, nor smell.

Psalms 97:7Let all them be shamed who abad ·serve· engraved images, 2 who boast in their idols. 2 Hawa ·Bow low, prostrate· to worship him, all you angels! + 97:7. Quoted in Heb 1:6 1

Psalms 115:8Those who make them will be like them; 2 yes, everyone who trusts in them. 1

Isaiah 2:20In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, 2 and their idols of gold, 2 which have been made for themselves to worship, 2 to the moles and to the bats; 2

Isaiah 41:24Behold, you are of nothing, 2 and your work is of nothing. 2 He who chooses you is an abomination. 1

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 →

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