Isaiah 41:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ You, indeed, are nothing, and your work is nothing at all; whoever chooses you is an abomination.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ Behold, you [idols] are nothing, and your work is nothing! The worshiper who chooses you is an abomination [extremely disgusting and shamefully vile in God's sight]. [I Cor. 8:4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you.

Common English Bible

²⁴ Look! You are nobody, and your deeds are nothing. Whoever chooses you is disgusting.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ Behold, you exist out of nothing, and your work is from what does not exist; he who has chosen you is an abomination.

Isaiah 41:24 Cross References

1 Corinthians 8:4

Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “no idol in the world really exists” and that “there is no God but one.”

Psalm 115:8

Those who make them are like them; so are all who trust in them.

Isaiah 41:29

No, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their images are empty wind.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction given by idols is no better than wood!

Revelation 17:5

and on her forehead was written a name, a mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of whores and of earth’s abominations.”

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.

Isaiah 66:24

And they shall go out and look at the dead bodies of the people who have rebelled against me, for their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.

Isaiah 37:19

and have hurled their gods into the fire, though they were no gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone—and so they were destroyed.

Deuteronomy 27:15

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who makes an idol or casts an image, anything abhorrent to the Lord, the work of an artisan, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall respond, saying, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 7:26

Do not bring an abhorrent thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction like it. You must utterly detest and abhor it, for it is set apart for destruction.

Proverbs 3:32

for the perverse are an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.

Proverbs 28:9

When one will not listen to the law, even one’s prayers are an abomination.

Jeremiah 10:5

Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, nor is it in them to do good.

Jeremiah 10:15

They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

Deuteronomy 7:25

The images of their gods you shall burn with fire. Do not covet the silver or the gold that is on them and take it for yourself, because you could be ensnared by it, for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God.