Isaiah 41:29
Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:21Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.
Psalms 115:4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
Isaiah 41:24Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.
Isaiah 46:7They bear it on their shoulder. They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands there. It cannot move from its place. Yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer. It cannot save him out of his trouble.
Jeremiah 10:2The LORD says, “Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.
Zechariah 10:2For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 41:22-29
Idolatry Exposed. ( b. c. 708.) 21 Produce your cause, saith the Lord ; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. 22 Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. 23 Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. 24 Behold, ye are of nothing,… Read the whole commentary →