Isaiah 42:17
They have drawn back They turn very pale Who have been trusting in a graven image,—Who have been saying to a molten image, Ye, are our gods!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
18Ye deaf hear! And ye blind look around that ye may see,
Cross References
Exodus 32:8They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them, they have made for themselves—a molten calf, and have bowed themselves down thereto and have sacrificed thereto, and have said. These, are thy gods, O Israel, who have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Psalms 135:18Like unto them, shall be they who make them, every one who trusteth in them.
Isaiah 44:9The fashioners of an image—all of them, are emptiness, And, the things they delight in, cannot profit,—And, their, witnesses, they, neither see nor know, That they may be ashamed.
Isaiah 44:17And the residue thereof, Into a GOD, he maketh, Into his carved image,—Adoreth it, and boweth down and prayeth unto it, And saith Deliver me, for, my GOD, thou art!
Jeremiah 2:26As the shame of a thief when he is found, So, hath been put to shame, the house of Israel,—They, their kings their princes, and their priests and their prophets:
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 42:14-18
Judgment and Mercy. ( b. c. 708.) 13 The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. 14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. 15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. 16 And I will bring the blind by a way that… Read the whole commentary →