Habakkuk 2:19
Wo vnto him that sayth to the wood, Awake, and to the dumme stone, Rise vp, it shall teach thee: beholde, it is layde ouer with golde and siluer, and there is no breath in it.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
20But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth keepe silence before him.
Cross References
Psalms 97:7Confounded be all they that serue grauen images, and that glory in idoles: worship him all ye gods.
Isaiah 40:19The workeman melteth an image, or the goldsmith beateth it out in golde, or the goldesmith maketh siluer plates.
Isaiah 46:6They draw gold out of the bagge and weigh siluer in the balance, and hire a goldsmith to make a god of it, and they bowe downe, and worship it.
Jeremiah 10:4And another decketh it with siluer, and with golde: they fasten it with nailes, and hammers, that it fall not.
Jeremiah 10:14Euery man is a beast by his owne knowledge: euery founder is confounded by the grauen image: for his melting is but falsehood, and there is no breath therein.
Daniel 3:1Nebuchad-nezzar the King made an image of gold, whose height was three score cubits, and the breadth thereof sixe cubites: hee set it vp in the plaine of Dura, in the prouince of Babel.
Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 2:16-20
Judgment Predicted. ( b. c. 600.) 15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! 16 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the Lord 's right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory. 17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the… Read the whole commentary →