Habakkuk 2:18

The Scriptures 1998

“Of what use shall a carved image be? For its maker has carved it: a moulded image and teacher of falsehood! For the maker trusts what he has made: to make dumb idols!

Cross References

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both brutish and foolish, an instruction of worthlessness is the tree.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that you were gentiles, led away to the dumb idols, even as you might be led.

Zechariah 10:2

For the household idols spoke emptiness, the diviners saw falsehood, and relate dreams of deceit, they comfort in vain. Therefore they have wandered about like sheep. They are afflicted, for there is no shepherd.

Isaiah 42:17

“Those who trust in idols, who say to the moulded images, ‘You are our mighty ones,’ shall be turned back, utterly ashamed.

Isaiah 45:16

They shall be put to shame, and even be humiliated, all of them – the makers of idols shall go away together in humiliation.

Jonah 2:8

“Those observing false worthlessnesses forsake their own kindness.

Revelation 19:20

And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he led astray those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshipped his image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire burning with sulphur.

Romans 6:21

What fruit, therefore, were you having then, over which you are now ashamed? For the end thereof is death.

Jeremiah 50:2

“Declare among the nations, and let it be heard. And lift up a banner, let it be heard, and do not conceal it. Say, ‘Baḇ

Isaiah 45:20

“Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the gentiles. No knowledge have they who are lifting up the wood of their carved image, and pray to a mighty one that does not save.

Isaiah 37:38

And it came to be, as he was bowing himself in the house of Nisroḵ

Isaiah 1:31

The strong shall be for tow, and his work for a spark. And both shall burn together, with no one to extinguish.

1 Samuel 12:21

and do not turn aside after worthless matters which do not profit or deliver, for they are worthless.

Psalm 97:7

All are put to shame who serve carved images, Those boasting of matters of naught. Bow yourselves to Him, all you mighty ones.

Isaiah 40:19

The workman moulds a graven image, and the goldsmith overspreads it with gold, and the silversmith casts silver chains.

Isaiah 41:26

“Who has declared from the beginning, and we know? and former times, and we say, ‘He is righteous’? No, no one is declaring; no, no one is proclaiming; no, no one is hearing your words.

Isaiah 44:12

The craftsman in iron with the tools works one in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with the strength of his arms. Even so, he shall be hungry, and has no strength; he drinks no water and is weary.

Jeremiah 2:8

“The priests did not say, ‘Where is יהוה ?’ And those who handle the Torah did not know Me, and the shepherds transgressed against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baʽ

Jeremiah 16:19

O יהוה, my strength and my stronghold and my refuge, in the day of distress the gentiles shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, “Our fathers have inherited only falsehood, futility, and there is no value in them.”

Jeremiah 51:17

All mankind has become too brutish to know, every smith has been put to shame by the carved image, for his moulded image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Daniel 5:23

“And you have lifted yourself up against the Master of the heavens. And they brought before you the vessels of His house, and you and your great men, your wives and your concubines, have been drinking wine from them. And you have praised the elahin of silver, and of gold, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone, which neither see nor hear nor know. But the Elah who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not made great.

Amos 2:4

Thus said יהוה, “For three transgressions of Yehuḏ

Judges 17:4

And he gave the silver back to his mother, and his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith, and he made it into a carved image and a moulded image. And they were in the house of Miḵ