Habakkuk 2:18

Modern English Version

What profit is a carved image when its maker has carved it, a cast image, and a teacher of lies, that its maker trusts in what he has shaped when he makes mute idols?

Cross References

Psalm 97:7

Let all who serve graven images be put to shame, who boast of idols; worship Him, all you gods.

Isaiah 1:31

The strong shall be as tinder, and his work like a spark; they will both burn together, and no one will quench them.

Isaiah 37:38

As he was worshipping in the house of Nisrok, his god, Adrammelek and Sharezer, his sons, struck him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

Isaiah 40:19

The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.

Isaiah 41:26

Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? And from former times, that we may say, “He is right!”? There is no one who shows, no one who declares, no one who hears your words.

Isaiah 42:17

They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, who trust in graven images, who say to the molded images, “You are our gods.”

Isaiah 44:12

The smith with the tongs both works in the coals and fashions it with hammers, and works it with the strength of his arms. He becomes hungry, and his strength fails; He drinks no water and is faint.

Isaiah 45:16

They shall be ashamed and also humiliated, all of them; the craftsmen of idols shall go away in confusion together,

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you fugitives of the nations. They have no knowledge who set up the wood of their carved image, and pray to a god that cannot save.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are altogether unthinking and foolish; the wooden idol is worthless instruction.

Jeremiah 16:19

O  Lord, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to You from the remote parts of the earth, and will say: Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, “Where is the Lord?” And those who handle the law did not know Me; the shepherds also transgressed against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and walked after things that do not profit.

Jeremiah 50:2

Declare among the nations and proclaim, and set up a standard; do not conceal it, but say, Babylon has been captured. Bel has been humiliated. Marduk has been broken in pieces; her idols have been humiliated; her images have been broken in pieces.

Jeremiah 51:17

Every man is ignorant by His knowledge; every founder is humiliated by the graven image, for his molded image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Daniel 5:23

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And they have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine in them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know. And the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.

Amos 2:4

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept His commandments. The lies which their fathers followed have led them astray.

Jonah 2:8

“Those who follow vain idols forsake their true loyalty.

Zechariah 10:2

For the household Teraphim idols speak wickedness, and the diviners envision lies. They utter false dreams, and provide comfort that does not last. So the people wander about like sheep; they are afflicted because there is no shepherd.

Romans 6:21

What fruit did you have then from the things of which you are now ashamed? The result of those things is death.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to mute idols, however you were led.

Revelation 19:20

But the beast was captured and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshipped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with brimstone.

Judges 17:4

When he returned the silver to his mother, she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith to make a carved idol and a metal idol. And they were put in the house of Micah.

1 Samuel 12:21

But do not turn aside, for then you would be going after empty things which cannot profit or deliver, for they are nothing.