Isaiah 44:12

English Standard Version 2016

The ironsmith takes a cutting tool and works it over the coals. He fashions it with hammers and works it with his strong arm. He becomes hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water and is faint.

Cross References

Isaiah 40:19

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

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?

Exodus 32:8

They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”

Exodus 32:4

And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf. And they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

Deuteronomy 4:28

And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

Isaiah 40:20

He who is too impoverished for an offering chooses wood that will not rot; he seeks out a skillful craftsman to set up an idol that will not move.

Habakkuk 2:18

“What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!

Zechariah 1:20

Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen.