Isaiah 44:9
Framers of a graven image [are] all of them emptiness, And their desirable things do not profit, And their own witnesses they [are], They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
10Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out — not profitable?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:28and ye have served there gods, work of man's hands, wood and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Judges 10:14Go and cry unto the gods on which ye have fixed; they — they save you in the time of your adversity.'
Psalms 97:7Ashamed are all servants of a graven image, Those boasting themselves in idols, Bow yourselves to him, all ye gods.
Psalms 115:8Nor do they mutter through their throat, Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.
Isaiah 2:20In that day doth man cast his idols of silver, And his idols of gold, That they have made for him to worship, To moles, and to bats,
Isaiah 41:24Lo, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought, An abomination — it fixeth on 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 →