Habakkuk 2:18

Tree of Life Version

What use is an idol when its craftsman has carved it? Or a metal image—a teacher of lies? For a craftsman has trusted in the image that he created, to make dumb idols.

Cross References

Psalm 97:7

Let all who serve graven images be ashamed—who boast in idols. Bow down before Him, all you gods!

Isaiah 1:31

So the strong will become tinder and his work like a spark— both will burn together, and no one will quench them.

Isaiah 37:38

It also came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of his god Nisroch, that his sons Adrammelech and Sarezer struck him down with the sword, and escaped into the land of Ararat. Then his son Esarhaddon became king in his place.

Isaiah 40:19

To an idol? A craftsman casts it, a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.

Isaiah 41:26

Who told this from the beginning, so that we may know? Or from former times, so we may say, “He is right”? In fact, no one foretold it, In fact, no one announced it. In fact, no one heard Your words.

Isaiah 42:17

They will be turned back, utterly put to shame— those trusting in idols, who say to molten images, ‘You are our gods.’

Isaiah 44:12

The blacksmith takes a tool and works with it over the coals, fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm. Yet when he is hungry, his strength fails. When he drinks no water, he gets tired.

Isaiah 45:16

All of them will be ashamed, disgraced— idol-makers go in dishonor together.

Isaiah 45:20

“Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, fugitives of the nations! Those who carry their wooden idols have no knowledge, praying to a god who cannot save.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are totally stupid and foolish. Discipline is useless—it’s wood!

Jeremiah 16:19

Adonai, my strength, my stronghold, my refuge in the day of affliction, to You will the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, futility and useless things.”

Jeremiah 2:8

The kohanim did not ask, ‘Where is Adonai?’ The Torah experts did not know Me. The shepherds rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and went after unprofitable things.

Jeremiah 50:2

“Declare it among the nations and proclaim! Raise a banner, announce, hide nothing! Say: ‘Babylon will be captured, Bel put to shame, Merodach dismayed, her images disgraced, her idols shattered!’

Jeremiah 51:17

All mankind is stupid, ignorant. Every goldsmith is disgraced by an idol, for his molten image is a lie— there is no breath in them.

Daniel 5:23

Instead you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You had the vessels of His House brought before you, and you and your nobles, your consorts and your concubines have been drinking wine in them. You have praised the gods made of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. Yet you did not honor the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.

Amos 2:4

Thus says Adonai: “For three crimes of Judah even for four, I will not relent. For they despise Adonai’s Torah and have not kept His statutes. Their lies have misled them— those their fathers walked after.

Jonah 2:8

As my soul was fading from me, I remembered Adonai and my prayer came to You, toward Your holy Temple.

Zechariah 10:2

The idols utter deceit and diviners see lies. They relate false dreams and comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep, afflicted because there is no shepherd.

Romans 6:21

So then, what outcome did you have that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that when you were pagans, you were enticed by idols that cannot speak, and you got led astray.

Revelation 19:20

Then the beast was captured, and along with him the false prophet who had performed the signs before him by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast, as well as those who had worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.

Judges 17:4

So when he returned the silver to his mother, his mother took 200 pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith who made it into a graven image and a molten image; and they were kept in the house of Micah.

1 Samuel 12:21

Do not turn aside to go after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are futile.