Isaiah 44:9
The 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.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
10Who hath fashioned a GOD, Oran image, hath molten? It cannot profit!
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:28and ye will serve there gods made by the hands of man,—wood or stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
Judges 10:14Go and make outcry unto the gods whom ye have chosen,—they, must save you, in the time of your tribulation.
Psalms 97:7Let all who serve an image, be ashamed, They who boast themselves in things of nought, Bow down unto him, all ye gods.
Psalms 115:8Like unto them, shall be they who make them, Every one who trusteth in them.
Isaiah 2:20In that day shall the son of earth cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold,—which had been made for him to worship, into the hole of the mice, and to the bats;
Isaiah 41:24Lo! ye, are, of nought, And your work is a puff of breath,—An abomination, he that chooseth you!
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 →