Habakkuk 2:18

A Conservative Version

What profits the graven image, that the maker of it has engraved it, the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make dumb idols?

Cross References

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are together brutish and foolish, the instruction of idols! It is but a block of wood.

1 Corinthians 12:2

Ye know that, while Gentiles, ye were being carried away to the voiceless idols, as ye were led.

Zechariah 10:2

For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and they have told FALSE dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.

Isaiah 42:17

They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly put to shame, who trust in graven images, who say to molten images, Ye are our gods.

Isaiah 45:16

They shall be put to shame, yea, confounded, all of them. They shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols.

Jonah 2:8

Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

Revelation 19:20

And the beast was taken, and the FALSE prophet with it who did the signs in its sight by which he led astray those who received the mark of the beast and those who worship its image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire

Romans 6:21

What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Jeremiah 50:2

Declare ye among the nations and publish, and set up a standard, publish, and conceal not. Say, Babylon is taken. Bel is put to shame. Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame; her idols are dismayed.

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations. They have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray to a god that cannot save.

Isaiah 37:38

And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.

Isaiah 1:31

And the strong shall be as flax, and his work as a spark. And they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

1 Samuel 12:21

And turn ye not aside after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

Psalm 97:7

Let all those be put to shame who serve graven images, who boast themselves of idols. Bow yourselves to him, all ye gods.

Isaiah 40:19

The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.

Isaiah 41:26

Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know, and beforetime, that we may say, [He is] right? Yea, there is none who declares. Yea, there is none who shows. Yea, there is none who hears your words.

Isaiah 44:12

The smith [makes] an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. Yea, he is hungry, and his strength fails. He drinks no water, and is faint.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, Where is LORD? and those who handle the law did not know me. The rulers also transgressed against me. And the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

Jeremiah 16:19

O LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to thee the nations shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in whic

Jeremiah 51:17

Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Daniel 5:23

but have lifted up thyself against LORD of heaven. And they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine from them. And thou have praised the gods of silve

Amos 2:4

Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have rejected the law of LORD, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, accord

Judges 17:4

And when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred [pieces] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it a graven image and a molten image. And it was in the house of Micah.