Isaiah 44:9
All they that make an image, are vanitie, and their delectable things shall nothing profite: and they are their owne witnesses, that they see not nor know: therefore they shalbe confounded.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
10Who hath made a god, or molten an image, that is profitable for nothing?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:28And there ye shall serue gods, euen ye worke of mans hand, wood, and stone, which neither see, nor heare, nor eate, nor smelll.
Judges 10:14Goe, and cry vnto the gods which ye haue chosen: let them saue you in the time of your tribulation.
Psalms 97:7Confounded be all they that serue grauen images, and that glory in idoles: worship him all ye gods.
Psalms 115:8They that make them are like vnto them: so are all that trust in them.
Isaiah 2:20At that day shall man cast away his siluer idoles, and his golden idoles (which they had made themselues to worship them) to the mowles and to the backes,
Isaiah 41:24Beholde, ye are of no value, and your making is of naught: man hath chosen an abomination by them.
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 →