Isaiah 44:12

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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

Cross References

Exodus 32:4

He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, *These are your gods, Yisra'el, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.*

Exodus 32:8

They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Yisra'el, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'*

Isaiah 40:19

A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.

Isaiah 40:20

He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, isn't it of the LORD of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

Habakkuk 2:18

*What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

Zechariah 1:20

The LORD showed me four craftsmen.

Deuteronomy 4:28

There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.