Isaiah 41:29

New English Translation

Look, all of them are nothing, their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance.

Cross References

Psalm 96:5

For all the gods of the nations are worthless, but the Lord made the sky.

Isaiah 17:8

They will no longer trust in the altars their hands made, or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made.

Isaiah 2:8

Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned.

Isaiah 37:19

They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.

Isaiah 41:24

Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent; the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting.

Isaiah 46:7

They put it on their shoulder and carry it; they put it in its place and it just stands there; it does not move from its place. Even when someone cries out to it, it does not reply; it does not deliver him from his distress.

Jeremiah 14:22

Do any of the worthless idols of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? So we put our hopes in you because you alone do all this.”

Jeremiah 5:13

The prophets will prove to be full of wind. The Lord has not spoken through them. So, let what they say happen to them.’”

Habakkuk 2:18

What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things?

Zechariah 10:2

For the household gods have spoken wickedness, the soothsayers have seen a lie, and as for the dreamers, they have disclosed emptiness and give comfort in vain. Therefore the people set out like sheep and become scattered because they have no shepherd.

Judges 18:17

The five men who had gone to spy out the land broke in and stole the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, while the priest was standing at the entrance to the gate with the six hundred fully armed men.

1 Samuel 12:21

You should not turn aside after empty things that can’t profit and can’t deliver, since they are empty.