Habakkuk 2:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ Alas for you who say to the wood, “Wake up!” to silent stone, “Rouse yourself!” Can it teach? See, it is gold and silver plated, and there is no breath in it at all.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ Woe to him who says to the wooden image, Awake! and to the dumb stone, Arise, teach! [Yet, it cannot, for] behold, it is laid over with gold and silver and there is no breath at all inside it!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Doom to the one saying to the tree, “Wake up!” or “Get up” to the silent stone. Does it teach? Look, it is overlaid with gold and silver, but there is no breath within it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ Woe to him who says to wood, "Awaken," to the silent stone, "Arise." Is it able to teach? Behold, it has been entirely covered with gold and silver; and there is no spirit at all in its inner workings.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ Woe to him that saith to wood: Awake: to the dumb stone: Arise: can it teach? Behold, it is laid over with gold, and silver, and there is no spirit in the bowels thereof.

Habakkuk 2:19 Cross References

Psalm 135:15

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

Psalm 135:17

they have ears, but they do not hear, a nose, but there is no breath in their mouths.

Psalm 97:7

All servants of images are put to shame, those who make their boast in worthless idols; all gods bow down before him.

Isaiah 26:14

The dead do not live; shades do not rise because you have punished and destroyed them and wiped out all memory of them.

Isaiah 40:19

An idol? A workman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts for it silver chains.

Isaiah 41:26

Who declared it from the beginning, so that we might know, and beforehand, so that we might say, “He is right”? There was no one who declared it, none who proclaimed, none who heard your words.

Isaiah 44:17

The rest of it he makes into a god, his idol, bows down to it and worships it; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god!”

Isaiah 46:6

Those who lavish gold from the purse and weigh out silver in the scales— they hire a goldsmith, who makes it into a god; then they fall down and worship!

Isaiah 57:6

Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion; it is they who are your lot; to them you have poured out a drink offering; you have brought a grain offering. Should these acts cause me to relent?

Jeremiah 10:14

Everyone is stupid and without knowledge; goldsmiths are all put to shame by their idols, for their images are false, and there is no breath in them.

Jeremiah 10:3

For the customs of the peoples are false: a tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an ax by the hands of an artisan;

Jeremiah 10:4

they deck it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammers and nails so that it cannot move.

Jeremiah 10:9

Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz. They are the work of the artisan and of the hands of the goldsmith; their clothing is blue and purple; they are all the product of skilled workers.

Jeremiah 2:27

who say to a tree, “You are my father,” and to a stone, “You gave me birth.” For they have turned their backs to me and not their faces. But in the time of their trouble they say, “Come and save us!”

Jeremiah 2:28

But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them come, if they can save you, in your time of trouble, for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.

Jeremiah 51:17

Everyone is stupid and without knowledge; goldsmiths are all put to shame by their idols, for their images are false, and there is no breath in them.

Jeremiah 51:47

Assuredly, the days are coming when I will punish the images of Babylon; her whole land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in her midst.

Daniel 3:1

King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue whose height was sixty cubits and whose width was six cubits; he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

Daniel 3:18

But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods and we will not worship the golden statue that you have set up.”

Daniel 3:29

Therefore I make a decree: Any people, nation, or language that utters blasphemy against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego shall be torn limb from limb and their houses laid in ruins, for there is no other god who is able to deliver in this way.”

Daniel 3:7

Therefore, as soon as all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, drum, and entire musical ensemble, all the peoples, nations, and languages fell down and worshiped the golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

Daniel 5:23

You have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven! The vessels of his temple have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have been drinking wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose power is your very breath and to whom belong all your ways, you have not honored.

Daniel 5:4

They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

Jonah 1:5

Then the sailors were afraid, and each cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten it for them. Jonah, meanwhile, had gone down into the hold of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep.

Acts 17:29

“Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals.

Revelation 17:4

The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her prostitution,