The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
Isaiah 40:19 - Tree of Life Version To an idol? A craftsman casts it, a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it. 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? |
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
Those who make them will be like them— so will all who keep trusting in them.
In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they made to worship, to the moles and to the bats!
Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their hands, what their own fingers have made.
You will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your metal images covered with gold. You will throw them away like a menstrual cloth. You will say, “Be gone!”
Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz. The work of the craftsman and of the goldsmith’s hands is clothed in blue and purple— all the work of skillful men.
They drank the wine and praised the gods made of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone.
For a craftsman from Israel made it, so it is no god. For the calf of Samaria will be splinters.
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.