Isaiah 44:12

As for the smith, [with his] cutting-tool,—When he hath wrought in the live coals, And, with hammers, hath fashioned it,—And hath wrought it with his strong arm, Anon he is hungry, and hath no strength, He hath drunk no water and so hath become faint!

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.

In Context

11Lo! all his partners, turn pale, Even, the artificers themselves, are of the sons of earth,—Let them gather themselves together—all of them. Let them take their stand, Let them dread, and turn pale, together!

13As for the carpenter,—He hath stretched out a line hath drawn it with a pencil, Hath made it with carving tools, With compasses, hath rounded it,—And so hath made it after the figure of a great man, After the beauty of a son of earth, that it may remain in a house!

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Cross References

Exodus 32:4And he received [the gold] at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf, and they said—These, are thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up, out of the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 40:19The image, hath been cast by an artificer, And a goldsmith, with gold, overlayeth it,—And, chains of silver, he worketh.

Isaiah 46:6They who pour gold out of a purse, And who weigh silver in a balance,—Who hire a goldsmith that he may make it into a GOD, They adore, yea they bow down;

Habakkuk 2:13Lo! is it not from Yahweh of hosts—that peoples labour for fire, and, populations, for emptiness, weary themselves?

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 44:10-21

The Folly of Idolatry. ( b. c. 708.) 9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. 10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? 11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together. 12 The smith with the… Read the whole commentary →

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