Isaiah 44:10

New American Bible - revised edition

Who would fashion a god or cast an idol, that is of no use?

Cross References

1 Kings 12:28

The king took counsel, made two calves of gold, and said to the people: “You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough. Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

Psalm 115:4

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

Isaiah 40:19

An idol? An artisan casts it, the smith plates it with gold, fits it with silver chains.

Isaiah 41:29

Ah, all of them are nothing, their works are nought, their idols, empty wind!

Isaiah 45:20

Come and assemble, gather together, you fugitives from among the nations! They are without knowledge who bear wooden idols and pray to gods that cannot save.

Jeremiah 10:5

Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they, they cannot speak; They must be carried about, for they cannot walk. Do not fear them, they can do no harm, neither can they do good.

Jeremiah 16:19

Lord, my strength, my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress! To you nations will come from the ends of the earth, and say, “Our ancestors inherited mere frauds, empty, worthless.”

Daniel 3:1

King Nebuchadnezzar had a golden statue made, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, which he set up in the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

Daniel 3:14

King Nebuchadnezzar questioned them: “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you will not serve my god, or worship the golden statue that I set up?

Habakkuk 2:18

Of what use is the carved image, that its maker should carve it? Or the molten image, the lying oracle, that its very maker should trust in it, and make mute idols?

Acts 19:26

As you can now see and hear, not only in Ephesus but throughout most of the province of Asia this Paul has persuaded and misled a great number of people by saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all.

1 Corinthians 8:4

So about the eating of meat sacrificed to idols: we know that “there is no idol in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”