And the king will consult and make two calves of gold, and he will say to them, Much for you going up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt
Isaiah 44:10 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876 Who formed a god and a carved molten image, profiting for nothing? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Who is [such a fool as] to fashion a god or cast a graven image that is profitable for nothing? American Standard Version (1901) Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing? Common English Bible Who would form a god or cast an idol that does no good? Catholic Public Domain Version Who has formed a god or cast a molten image, which is useful for nothing? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who hath formed a god, and made a graven thing that is profitable for nothing? |
And the king will consult and make two calves of gold, and he will say to them, Much for you going up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt
The artificer cast the carved image, and the founder will spread it out with gold, and he smelted chains of silver.
Behold, all of them, nothing; their works are no more: wind and emptiness are their libations.
Assemble ye together and come; draw ye near together, the escaped of the nations: they knew not lifting up the wood of their carved image, and praying to God he will not save.
They are of turned work, as the palm tree, and they shall not speak; being lifted up they shall be lifted up, for they shall not mount up. Ye shall not be afraid of them, for they will not do evil, and also doing good is not with them.
O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in days of straits, to thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and they shall say, Surely our fathers inherited falsehood, vanity, and no receiving profit in them.
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold; its height sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits: he set it up in the valley of Dura, in the province of Babel.
Nebuchadnemr answered and said to them, Is it on purpose O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed Nego, ye not serving to my gods, and to the image of gold that I set up, ye not prostrating yourselves?
What profited the carved image that he forming it carved it? the molten image and he teaching falsehood, that the former of his forming trusted upon it to make nothings being dumb?
And ye see and hear that not only Ephesus, but almost all Asia, this Paul having persuaded, changed a sufficient crowd, saying, that they are not gods made by hands:
Concerning food therefore of sacrifices to idols, we know that an idol nothing in the world, and that none other God but one.