Isaiah 42:17
They will be turned back, they will be completely put to shame, those who trust in carved figures, 1 who say to cast metal figures, “You are our gods.” 1
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18Listen, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see. 1
Cross References
Exodus 32:8They have quickly left the way that I commanded them. They have molded for themselves a calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it. They have said, 'Israel, this is your god who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'”
Psalms 135:18Those who make them are like them, 1 as is everyone who trusts in them. 1
Isaiah 44:9All who fashion idols are nothing; the things they delight in are worthless; 1 their witnesses cannot see or know anything, and they will be put to shame. 1
Isaiah 44:17With the rest of the wood he makes a god, his carved image; he bows down to it and reverences it, 1 and prays to it saying, “Rescue me, for you are my god.” 1
Jeremiah 2:26Like the shame of a thief when he is found, so the house of Israel will be ashamed— 1 they, their kings, their princes, and their priests and prophets! 1
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 →