They will not look to the altars they made with their hands or to the Asherahs and shrines , they made with their fingers.
Isaiah 41:29 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Look, all of them are a delusion; their works are non-existent; their images are wind and emptiness. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Behold, these [pagan prophets and priests] are all emptiness (falseness and futility)! Their works are worthless; their molten images are empty wind (confusion and waste). American Standard Version (1901) Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; their molten images are wind and confusion. Common English Bible Look, all of them are frauds; their deeds amount to nothing; their images are a total delusion. Catholic Public Domain Version Behold, they are all unjust, and their works are empty. Their idols are wind and emptiness. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Behold, they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity. |
They will not look to the altars they made with their hands or to the Asherahs and shrines , they made with their fingers.
Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the work of their hands, what their fingers have made.
They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but made from wood and stone by human hands. So they have destroyed them.
Look, you are nothing and your work is worthless. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.
They lift it to their shoulder and bear it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands; it does not budge from its place. They cry out to it but it doesn’t answer; it saves no one from his trouble.
Can any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Or can the skies alone give showers? Are you not the Lord our God? We therefore put our hope in you, for you have done all these things.
The prophets become only wind, for the Lord’s word is not in them. This will in fact happen to them.
What use is a carved idol after its craftsman carves it? It is only a cast image, a teacher of lies. For the one who crafts its shape trusts in it and makes worthless idols that cannot speak.
For the idols speak falsehood, and the diviners see illusions; they relate empty dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they suffer affliction because there is no shepherd.
Then the five men who had gone to scout out the land went in and took the carved image, the ephod, the household idols, and the silver idol, while the priest was standing by the entrance of the city gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
Don’t turn away to follow worthless things that can’t profit or rescue you; they are worthless.