Isaiah 44:9
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.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
10Who hath formed a god, or cast a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:28And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Judges 10:14Go and cry to the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
Psalms 97:7Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols; worship him, all ye gods.
Psalms 115:8They that make them are like them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
Isaiah 2:20In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Isaiah 41:24Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of naught: an abomination is 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 →