Isaiah 41:29
Lo! as to all of them, Vanity—nothingness, are their works, Wind and emptiness, their molten images!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 12:21and turn not aside after vanities, that can neither profit nor deliver, because, vanities, they are.
Psalms 115:4Their idols, are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men,—
Isaiah 41:24Lo! ye, are, of nought, And your work is a puff of breath,—An abomination, he that chooseth you!
Isaiah 46:7They carry him about on the shoulder They bear the burden of him—and set him in his place that he may stand,—Out of his place, will he not move,—Though one even make outcry unto him, he will not answer, Out of one’s trouble, he will not save him.
Jeremiah 10:2Thus, saith Yahweh—Unto the way of the nations, become not ye accustomed, Nor at the signs of the heavens, be ye dismayed,—Because the nations are dismayed at them.
Zechariah 10:2For, the household gods, have spoken vanity, and, the diviners, have had vision of falsehood, and, deceitful dreams, do they relate, vainly, do they console,—for this reason, have they moved about like a flock, they suffer ill, 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 →