Isaiah 40:19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Psalm 135:15

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

Psalm 135:18

Those who make them and all who trust them shall become like them.

Isaiah 2:20

On that day people will throw away to the moles and to the bats their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship,

Isaiah 2:8

Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.

Isaiah 30:22

Then you will defile your silver-covered idols and your gold-plated images. You will scatter them like impure things; you will say to them, “Away with you!”

Jeremiah 10:9

Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz. They are the work of the artisan and of the hands of the goldsmith; their clothing is blue and purple; they are all the product of skilled workers.

Daniel 5:4

They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

Hosea 8:6

For it is from Israel, an artisan made it; it is not God. The calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.

Judges 17:4

So when he returned the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into an idol of cast metal, and it was in the house of Micah.