Isaiah 40:19

Geneva Bible (1560)

The workeman melteth an image, or the goldsmith beateth it out in golde, or the goldesmith maketh siluer plates.

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  • Ps 115:4-8 : 4 Their idoles are siluer and golde, euen the worke of mens hands. 5 They haue a mouth and speake not: they haue eyes and see not. 6 They haue eares and heare not: they haue noses and smell not. 7 They haue handes and touche not: they haue feete and walke not: neither make they a sound with their throte. 8 They that make them are like vnto them: so are all that trust in them.
  • Jer 10:9 : 9 Siluer plates are brought from Tarshish, & golde from Vphaz, for the worke of the workeman, and the handes of the founder: the blewe silke, and the purple is their clothing: all these things are made by cunning men.
  • Hab 2:18-19 : 18 What profiteth the image? for the maker thereof hath made it an image, and a teacher of lies, though he that made it, trust therein, when he maketh dumme idoles. 19 Wo vnto him that sayth to the wood, Awake, and to the dumme stone, Rise vp, it shall teach thee: beholde, it is layde ouer with golde and siluer, and there is no breath in it.
  • Hos 8:6 : 6 For it came euen from Israel: the workeman made it, therefore it is not God: but the calfe of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
  • Ps 135:15 : 15 The idoles of the heathen are siluer and golde, euen the worke of mens handes.
  • Ps 135:18 : 18 They that make them, are like vnto them: so are all that trust in them.
  • Isa 2:20 : 20 At that day shall man cast away his siluer idoles, & his golden idoles (which they had made themselues to worship them) to the mowles and to the backes,
  • Isa 37:18-19 : 18 Trueth it is, O Lord, that the Kings of Asshur haue destroyed all lands, & their countrey, 19 And haue cast their gods in ye fire: for they were no gods, but the worke of mans hands, euen wood or stone: therefore they destroyed them.
  • Exod 32:2-4 : 2 And Aaron said vnto them, Plucke off the golden earings, which are in the eares of your wiues, of your sonnes, and of your daughters, and bring them vnto me. 3 Then all ye people pluckt fro them selues the golden earings, which were in their eares, and they brought them vnto Aaron. 4 Who receiued them at their handes, and facioned it with the grauing toole, & made of it a molte calfe: then they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee out of ye lad of Egypt
  • Judg 17:4 : 4 And when he had restored the money vnto his mother, his mother tooke two hundreth shekels of siluer, and gaue them to the founder, which made thereof a grauen and molten image, and it was in the house of Michah.
  • Isa 44:10-12 : 10 Who hath made a god, or molten an image, that is profitable for nothing? 11 Beholde, all that are of the felowship thereof, shall be confounded: for the workemen themselues are men: let them all be gathered together, and stand vp, yet they shall feare, and be confounded together. 12 The smith taketh an instrument, and worketh in the coles, and facioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his armes: yea, he is an hungred, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
  • Isa 46:6-7 : 6 They draw gold out of the bagge & weigh siluer in the balance, and hire a goldsmith to make a god of it, and they bowe downe, and worship it. 7 They beare it vpon the shoulders: they carie him and set him in his place: so doeth he stand, and cannot remoue from his place. Though one crie vnto him, yet can he not answere, nor deliuer him out of his tribulation.
  • Jer 10:3-5 : 3 For the customes of the people are vaine: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest (which is the worke of the handes of the carpenter) with the axe, 4 And another decketh it with siluer, and with golde: they fasten it with nailes, and hammers, that it fall not. 5 The idoles stande vp as the palme tree, but speake not: they are borne because they cannot go feare them not, for they cannot do euill, neither can they do good.
  • Isa 41:6-7 : 6 Euery man helped his neighbour, and saide to his brother, Be strong. 7 So the workeman comforted the founder, and he that smote with ye hammer, him that smote by course, saying, It is ready for the sodering, and he fastened it with nayles that it shoulde not be mooued.

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  • Isa 46:5-6
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    5To whom will ye make me like or make me equall, or copare me, that I should be like him?

    6They draw gold out of the bagge & weigh siluer in the balance, and hire a goldsmith to make a god of it, and they bowe downe, and worship it.

  • Isa 44:9-12
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    9All they that make an image, are vanitie, and their delectable things shall nothing profite: & they are their owne witnesses, that they see not nor know: therefore they shalbe confounded.

    10Who hath made a god, or molten an image, that is profitable for nothing?

    11Beholde, all that are of the felowship thereof, shall be confounded: for the workemen themselues are men: let them all be gathered together, and stand vp, yet they shall feare, and be confounded together.

    12The smith taketh an instrument, and worketh in the coles, and facioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his armes: yea, he is an hungred, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.

  • Isa 40:20
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    20Doeth not the poore chuse out a tree that will not rot, for an oblation? he seeketh also vnto him a cunning workeman, to prepare an image, that shall not be moued.

  • Isa 40:18
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    18To whom then wil ye liken God? or what similitude will ye set vp vnto him?

  • Ps 135:15
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    15The idoles of the heathen are siluer and golde, euen the worke of mens handes.

  • Jer 10:9
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    9Siluer plates are brought from Tarshish, & golde from Vphaz, for the worke of the workeman, and the handes of the founder: the blewe silke, and the purple is their clothing: all these things are made by cunning men.

  • Ps 115:4
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    4Their idoles are siluer and golde, euen the worke of mens hands.

  • Exod 31:4-5
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    4To finde out curious workes to worke in golde, and in siluer, and in brasse,

    5Also in the arte to set stones, & to carue in timber, & to worke in all maner of workmaship.

  • Hab 2:18-19
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    18What profiteth the image? for the maker thereof hath made it an image, and a teacher of lies, though he that made it, trust therein, when he maketh dumme idoles.

    19Wo vnto him that sayth to the wood, Awake, and to the dumme stone, Rise vp, it shall teach thee: beholde, it is layde ouer with golde and siluer, and there is no breath in it.

  • Exod 35:32-33
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    32To finde out curious workes, to worke in golde, and in siluer, and in brasse,

    33And in grauing stones to set them, and in karuing of wood, euen to make any maner of fine worke.

  • Jer 51:17
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    17Euery man is a beast by his owne knowledge: euery founder is confounded by the grauen image: for his melting is but falsehood, and there is no breath therein.

  • Jer 10:14
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    14Euery man is a beast by his owne knowledge: euery founder is confounded by the grauen image: for his melting is but falsehood, and there is no breath therein.

  • Exod 25:39
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    39Of a talent of fine gold shalt thou make it with all these instruments.

  • 1 Chr 29:5
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    5The golde for the things of golde, and the siluer for things of siluer, and for all the worke by the handes of artificers: and who is willing to fill his hand to day vnto the Lord?

  • Jer 10:4
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    4And another decketh it with siluer, and with golde: they fasten it with nailes, and hammers, that it fall not.

  • Isa 41:7
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    7So the workeman comforted the founder, and he that smote with ye hammer, him that smote by course, saying, It is ready for the sodering, and he fastened it with nayles that it shoulde not be mooued.

  • Isa 44:17
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    17And the residue thereof he maketh a god, euen his idole: he boweth vnto it, and worshippeth and prayeth vnto it, and sayeth, Deliuer me: for thou art my god.

  • Ps 135:18
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    18They that make them, are like vnto them: so are all that trust in them.

  • Isa 2:8
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    8Their land also was full of idols: they worshipped the worke of their owne hands, which their owne fingers haue made.

  • Exod 28:14
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    14And two cheynes of fine golde at the ende, of wrethed worke shalt thou make them, and shalt fasten the wrethed cheynes vpon the bosses.

  • Exod 39:15
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    15After, they made vpon the brest plate cheines at the endes, of wrethen worke and pure golde.

  • Exod 39:3
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    3And they did beate the golde into thinne plates, and cut it into wiers, to worke it in ye blewe silke and in the purple, and in the skarlet, and in the fine linen, with broydred worke.

  • Isa 44:15
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    15And man burneth thereof: for he will take thereof and warme himselfe: he also kindleth it & baketh bread, yet he maketh a god, & worshippeth it: he maketh it an idole and boweth vnto it.

  • Ps 115:8
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    8They that make them are like vnto them: so are all that trust in them.

  • Isa 31:7
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    7For in that day euery man shall cast out his idoles of siluer, and his idoles of golde, which your handes haue made you, euen a sinne.

  • Isa 30:22
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    22And ye shall pollute the couering of the images of siluer, and the riche ornament of thine images of golde, and cast them away as a menstruous cloth, and thou shalt say vnto it, Get thee hence.

  • Song 1:11
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    11We will make thee borders of golde with studdes of siluer.

  • Exod 37:24
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    24Of a talent of pure golde made he it with all the instruments thereof.

  • Deut 27:15
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    15Cursed be the man that shall make any carued or molten image, which is an abomination vnto the Lord, the worke of the hands of the craftesman, and putteth it in a secrete place: And all the people shal answere, and say: So be it.

  • Jer 16:20
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    20Shall a man make gods vnto himselfe, and they are no gods?

  • Isa 3:19
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    19The sweete balles, and the brasselets, and the bonnets,

  • Exod 37:22
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    22Their knops & their branches were of the same: it was all one beaten worke of pure gold.

  • Exod 28:22
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    22Then thou shalt make vpon the breast plate two cheines at the endes of wrethen worke of pure golde.

  • Hos 13:2
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    2And nowe they sinne more and more, and haue made them molten images of their siluer, and idoles according to their owne vnderstanding: they were all the woorke of the craftesmen: they say one to another whiles they sacrifice a man, Let them kisse the calues.

  • Exod 37:17
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    17Likewise he made the Candlesticke of pure golde: of worke beaten out with the hammer made he the Candlesticke: and his shaft, and his branche, his bolles, his knops, and his floures were of one piece.

  • Prov 25:4
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    4Take the drosse from the siluer, and there shall proceede a vessell for the finer.

  • Hos 8:6
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    6For it came euen from Israel: the workeman made it, therefore it is not God: but the calfe of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

  • Exod 25:31
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    31Also thou shalt make a Candlesticke of pure golde: of worke beaten out with the hammer shall the Candlesticke be made, his shaft, & his branches, his boules, his knops: and his floures shalbe of the same.

  • Exod 37:2
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    2And ouerlayde it with fine golde within and without, and made a crowne of golde to it rounde about,

  • Isa 37:19
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    19And haue cast their gods in ye fire: for they were no gods, but the worke of mans hands, euen wood or stone: therefore they destroyed them.

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    11I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets vpon thine handes, and a chaine on thy necke.

  • Exod 37:12
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    12Also he made thereto a border of an hand breadth round about, and made vpon the border a crowne of golde round about.

  • Exod 25:36
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    36Their knops and their branches shall bee thereof. all this shalbe one beaten worke of pure golde.