Habakkuk 2:18

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

What does an image profit, for its former has carved it; a molten image, and a teacher of falsehood? For does the former trust in his work on it, to make mute idols?

Cross References

Psalm 97:7

All who serve graven images are shamed, those who boast themselves in idols; all gods bow down before Him.

Isaiah 1:31

And the strong one shall be for tow, and his work for a spark; and they shall burn both together; and no one shall quench them.

Isaiah 37:38

And it happened as he was worshiping in the house of his god Nisroch, even his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword. And they escaped into the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.

Isaiah 40:19

The craftsman pours out the molten image, the smelter spreads it with gold; and he casts the chains of silver.

Isaiah 41:26

Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know; and from before, that we may say, He is a righteous one? Yea, not one declares; yea, not one proclaims; yea, there is not one who hears your words.

Isaiah 42:17

they are turned back; they are ashamed with shame, those trusting in the carved image, who say to cast images, You are our gods.

Isaiah 44:12

He carves iron with a tool; he works in the coals and forms it with hammers, and works it with his powerful arm; then he is hungry, and has no strength; he drinks no water and is weary.

Isaiah 45:16

They shall be ashamed, and also disgraced, all of them. Together they go into disgrace, carvers of images.

Isaiah 45:20

Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, fugitives of the nations; the ones who set up the wood of their carved image, and the ones who pray to a god who does not save; they know nothing.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are at once being foolish and being stupid; their tree is an instruction of vanities.

Jeremiah 16:19

O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, Our fathers have inherited only lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, Where is Jehovah? And they who handle the Law did not know Me. And the shepherds transgressed against Me; and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after things not being profitable.

Jeremiah 50:2

Declare among the nations, and make them hear, and lift up a banner. Make them hear, do not hide it; say, Babylon is captured, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is broken in pieces, her images are put to shame, her idols are broken in pieces.

Jeremiah 51:17

Every man is brutish in knowledge, every refiner is put to shame by idols. For his molten image is a lie, and no breath is in them.

Daniel 5:23

But you have exalted yourself against the Lord of Heaven. And they have brought the vessels of His house before you. And you, and your nobles, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine with them. And you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, nor hear, and do not know. And you have not glorified the God in whose hand is your life-breath and all your ways.

Amos 2:4

So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn back from it; for they rejected the Law of Jehovah, and they have not kept His statutes. And their lies after which their fathers walked led them astray.

Jonah 2:8

Those who pay heed to vanities of idolatry forsake their mercy;

Zechariah 10:2

For the family idols speak iniquity, and the divining ones have seen a lie and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Therefore they pulled up stakes like a flock; they were afflicted because there was no shepherd.

Romans 6:21

Therefore what fruit did you have then over the things which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that when you were nations, how you were led, being carried away to voiceless idols.

Revelation 19:20

And the beast was seized, and with this one the false prophet, the one doing signs before it, by which he led astray the ones receiving the mark of the beast, and the ones worshiping its image. The two were thrown living into the Lake of Fire burning with brimstone.

Judges 17:4

And he returned the silver to his mother. And his mother took two hundred silver pieces and gave them to a refiner. And he made it a graven image, and a molten image. And it was in Micah’s house.

1 Samuel 12:21

And do not turn aside to go after vanities which do not profit and do not deliver, for they are vanities.