Therefore the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 44:10 - King James 2000 Who fashions a god, or molds a graven image, that is profitable 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? |
Therefore the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.
Behold, they are all worthless; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you that are escaped from the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come unto you from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and its width six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do you not serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
What profits the graven image that its maker has shaped it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make dumb idols?
Moreover you see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, which are made with hands:
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.