Habakkuk 2:18

Modern King James Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 97:7

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

Isaiah 1:31

And the strong shall be like tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall put them out.

Isaiah 37:38

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

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 beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? Yea, no one declares; yea, no one proclaims; yea, no one hears your words.

Isaiah 42:17

They are turned back, they are greatly ashamed, those who trust in graven images and who say to the images, You are our gods.

Isaiah 44:12

He engraves iron with a tool. He works in the coals, and forms it with hammers, and works it with the strength of his arms. Then, he is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is weak.

Isaiah 45:16

They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them; they who are makers of idols shall go into disgrace together.

Isaiah 45:20

Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, escaped ones of the nations; those who set up the wood of their graven image, and those that pray to a god that cannot save. They know nothing.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are all at once foolish and animal-like; the tree is an example 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 shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited 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; the shepherds also rebelled against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things not profitable.

Jeremiah 50:2

Declare among the nations, and cause them to hear, and lift up a banner. Cause them to hear, do not hide it; say, Babylon is captured, Bel is ashamed, Merodach is broken in pieces; her images are shamed, 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 molded image is a lie, and no breath is in them.

Daniel 5:23

But you 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 from them. And you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor know. And you have not glorified the God in whose hand is your breath and all your ways.

Amos 2:4

So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, yea for four, I will not turn away from it; because they have despised the Laws of Jehovah, and have not kept His commandments. And their lies after which their fathers walked led them astray.

Jonah 2:8

They who take heed to lying vanities forsake their kindness;

Zechariah 10:2

For the family idols speak iniquity, and the diviners have seen a lie and have told false dreams. They comfort in vain; therefore they wandered like a flock; they were troubled because there was no shepherd.

Romans 6:21

What fruit did you have then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that being led away, you nations were led to dumb idols.

Revelation 19:20

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet doing signs before it, (by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast), and those who had worshiped his image. The two were thrown alive into the Lake of Fire burning with brimstone.

Judges 17:4

And he gave the money back to his mother. And his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a refiner, who made of it an engraved image and a molten image. And they were in the house of Micah.

1 Samuel 12:21

And do not turn aside to go after vanities, which cannot profit nor deliver. For they are vain.