Isaiah 44:9

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

All who make idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit; their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:18

and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they were destroyed.

Psalm 115:4

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Psalm 115:8

Those who make them are like them; so are all who trust in them.

Psalm 135:18

Like them be those who make them!— yea, every one who trusts in them!

Psalm 97:7

All worshipers of images are put to shame, who make their boast in worthless idols; all gods bow down before him.

Isaiah 26:11

O Lord, thy hand is lifted up, but they see it not. Let them see thy zeal for thy people, and be ashamed. Let the fire for thy adversaries consume them.

Isaiah 41:24

Behold, you are nothing, and your work is naught; an abomination is he who chooses you.

Isaiah 41:29

Behold, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their molten images are empty wind.

Isaiah 42:17

They shall be turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in graven images, who say to molten images, “You are our gods.”

Isaiah 42:18

Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see!

Isaiah 43:8

Bring forth the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears!

Isaiah 43:9

Let all the nations gather together, and let the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to justify them, and let them hear and say, It is true.

Isaiah 44:11

Behold, all his fellows shall be put to shame, and the craftsmen are but men; let them all assemble, let them stand forth, they shall be terrified, they shall be put to shame together.

Isaiah 44:18

They know not, nor do they discern; for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their minds, so that they cannot understand.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

Isaiah 45:16

All of them are put to shame and confounded, the makers of idols go in confusion together.

Isaiah 45:20

“Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.

Isaiah 57:12

I will tell of your righteousness and your doings, but they will not help you.

Isaiah 65:13

Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame;

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Art thou not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on thee, for thou doest all these things.

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

Jeremiah 2:26

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

Daniel 11:38

He shall honor the god of fortresses instead of these; a god whom his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts.

Daniel 5:23

but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

1 Corinthians 8:4

Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.”

2 Corinthians 4:4

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.

Ephesians 4:18

they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart;

Ephesians 5:8

for once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light

Deuteronomy 27:15

“ ‘Cursed be the man who makes a graven or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

Deuteronomy 4:28

And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of men's hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

Judges 10:14

Go and cry to the gods whom you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress.”