Isaiah 44:12

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

The ironsmith fashions it and works it over the coals, shaping it with hammers, and forging it with his strong arm; he becomes hungry and his strength fails, he drinks no water and is faint.

Cross References

Exodus 32:4

He took the gold from them, formed it in a mold, and cast an image of a calf; and they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

Exodus 32:8

they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’ ”

Isaiah 40:19

An idol? —A workman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts for it silver chains.

Isaiah 40:20

As a gift one chooses mulberry wood —wood that will not rot— then seeks out a skilled artisan to set up an image that will not topple.

Habakkuk 2:13

Is it not from the Lord of hosts that peoples labor only to feed the flames, and nations weary themselves for nothing?

Habakkuk 2:18

What use is an idol once its maker has shaped it— a cast image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in what has been made, though the product is only an idol that cannot speak!

Zechariah 1:20

Then the Lord showed me four blacksmiths.

Deuteronomy 4:28

There you will serve other gods made by human hands, objects of wood and stone that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.