Isaiah 44:12

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

Exodus 32:4

He received them from their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it into a molded calf. Then they said, “This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

Exodus 32:8

They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molded calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, which has brought you up from the land of Egypt.’ ”

Isaiah 40:19

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

Isaiah 40:20

He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks for himself a skillful workman to prepare a graven image that shall not totter.

Habakkuk 2:13

Is it not from the Lord of Hosts that the people labor to feed fire, and the nations weary themselves for nothing?

Habakkuk 2:18

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?

Zechariah 1:20

Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen.

Deuteronomy 4:28

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