Isaiah 44:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ The carpenter stretches a line, marks it out with a stylus, fashions it with planes, and marks it with a compass; he makes it in human form, with human beauty, to be set up in a shrine.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ The carpenter stretches out a line, he marks it out with a pencil or red ocher; he fashions [an idol] with planes and marks it out with the compasses; and he shapes it to have the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, that it may dwell in a house.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ The carpenter stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with a pencil; he shapeth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compasses, and shapeth it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.

Common English Bible

¹³ A carpenter stretches out a string, marks it out with a stylus, fashions it with carving tools, and marks it with a compass. He makes it into a human form, like a splendid human, to live in a temple.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ The maker of wood has extended his ruler. He has formed it with a plane. He has made it with corners, and he has smoothed its curves. And he has made the image of a man, a seemingly beautiful man, dwelling in a house.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ The carpenter hath stretched out his rule, he hath formed it with a plane. He hath made it with corners and hath fashioned it round with the compass: and he hath made the image of a man, as it were, a beautiful man, dwelling in a house.

Isaiah 44:13 Cross References

Genesis 31:19

Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s household gods.

Genesis 31:30

Even though you had to go because you longed greatly for your father’s house, why did you steal my gods?”

Genesis 31:32

But anyone with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our kinsfolk, point out what I have that is yours, and take it.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.

Genesis 35:2

So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your clothes;

Isaiah 41:7

The artisan encourages the goldsmith, and the one who smooths with the hammer encourages the one who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good,” and they fasten it with nails so that it cannot be moved.

Isaiah 44:14

He cuts down cedars or chooses a holm tree or an oak and lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a cedar and the rain nourishes it.

Ezekiel 8:10

So I went in and looked; there, portrayed on the wall all around, were all kinds of creeping things and loathsome animals and all the idols of the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 8:11

Before them stood seventy of the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and the fragrant cloud of incense was ascending.

Ezekiel 8:12

Then he said to me, “Mortal, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of images? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’ ”

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.

Romans 1:23

and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

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 4:28

There you will serve gods made by human hands, objects of wood and stone that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

Judges 18:24

He replied, “You take my gods that I made and the priest and go away, and what have I left? How then can you ask me, ‘What is the matter?’ ”