On that day people will throw their worthless idols of silver and gold, which they made to worship, to the moles and the bats.
Isaiah 40:19 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised An idol? #– #something that a smelter casts and a metalworker plates with gold and makes silver chains for? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The graven image! A workman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts silver chains for it. American Standard Version (1901) The image, a workman hath cast it, and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains. Common English Bible An idol? A craftsman pours it, a metalworker covers it with gold, and fashions silver chains. Catholic Public Domain Version Should the workman cast a statue? Or has the goldsmith formed it with gold, or the silversmith with plates of silver? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Hath the workman cast a graven statue? Or hath the goldsmith formed it with gold, or the silversmith with plates of silver? |
On that day people will throw their worthless idols of silver and gold, which they made to worship, to the moles and the bats.
Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the work of their hands, what their fingers have made.
Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.
Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz. , The work of a craftsman and of a goldsmith’s hands is clothed in blue and purple, all the work of skilled craftsmen.
They drank the wine and praised their gods made of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
For this thing is from Israel – a craftsman made it, and it is not God. The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!
So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took 2.5 kilograms of silver and gave it to a silversmith. He made it into a carved image and a silver idol, and it was in Micah’s house.