Isaiah 44:9
Everyone who makes a carved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.
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In Context
10Who has fashioned a god, or moulds an image that is profitable for nothing?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:28There you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Judges 10:14Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”
Psalms 97:7Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!
Psalms 115:8Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.
Isaiah 2:20In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,
Isaiah 41:24Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.
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 →