Isaiah 44:9

New American Bible - revised edition

Those who fashion idols are all nothing; their precious works are of no avail. They are their witnesses: they see nothing, know nothing, and so they are put to shame.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:18

They gave their gods to the fire—they were not gods at all, but the work of human hands—wood and stone, they destroyed them.

Psalm 115:4

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

Psalm 115:8

Their makers will be like them, and anyone who trusts in them.

Psalm 135:18

Their makers will become like them, and anyone who trusts in them.

Psalm 97:7

All who serve idols are put to shame, who glory in worthless things; all gods bow down before him.

Isaiah 26:11

Lord, your hand is raised high, but they do not perceive it; Let them be put to shame when they see your zeal for your people: let the fire prepared for your enemies consume them.

Isaiah 41:24

Why, you are nothing and your work is nought; to choose you is an abomination!

Isaiah 41:29

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

Isaiah 42:17

They shall be turned back in utter shame who trust in idols; Who say to molten images, “You are our gods.”

Isaiah 42:18

You deaf ones, listen, you blind ones, look and see!

Isaiah 43:8

Lead out the people, blind though they have eyes, deaf though they have ears.

Isaiah 43:9

Let all the nations gather together, let the peoples assemble! Who among them could have declared this, or announced to us the earlier things? Let them produce witnesses to prove themselves right, that one may hear and say, “It is true!”

Isaiah 44:11

Look, all its company will be shamed; they are artisans, mere human beings! They all assemble and stand there, only to cower in shame.

Isaiah 44:18

They do not know, do not understand; their eyes are too clouded to see, their minds, to perceive.

Isaiah 44:20

He is chasing ashes! A deluded mind has led him astray; He cannot save himself, does not say, “This thing in my right hand—is it not a fraud?”

Isaiah 45:16

They are put to shame and disgrace, all of them; they go in disgrace who carve images.

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.

Isaiah 57:12

I will proclaim your justice and your works; but they shall not help you.

Isaiah 65:13

therefore thus says the Lord God: My servants shall eat, but you shall go hungry; My servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; My servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame;

Jeremiah 14:22

Among the idols of the nations are there any that give rain? Or can the mere heavens send showers? Is it not you, Lord, our God, to whom we look? You alone do all these things.

Jeremiah 2:11

Does any other nation change its gods?— even though they are not gods at all! But my people have changed their glory for useless things.

Jeremiah 2:26

As the thief is shamed when caught, so shall the house of Israel be shamed: They, their kings, their princes, their priests and their prophets;

Daniel 11:38

Instead, he shall give glory to the god of strongholds; a god unknown to his ancestors he shall glorify with gold, silver, precious stones, and other treasures.

Daniel 5:23

you have rebelled against the Lord of heaven. You had the vessels of his temple brought before you, so that you and your nobles, your consorts and your concubines, might drink wine from them; and you praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, that neither see nor hear nor have intelligence. But the God in whose hand is your very breath and the whole course of your life, you did not glorify.

Romans 1:22

While claiming to be wise, they became fools

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.”

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whose case the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they may not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Ephesians 4:18

darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance, because of their hardness of heart,

Ephesians 5:8

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light,

Deuteronomy 27:15

“Cursed be anyone who makes a carved or molten idol, an abomination to the Lord, the work of a craftsman’s hands, and sets it up in secret!” And all the people shall answer, “Amen!”

Deuteronomy 4:28

There you shall serve gods that are works of human hands, of wood and stone, gods which can neither see nor hear, neither eat nor smell.

Judges 10:14

Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen; let them save you in your time of distress.