So the king sought counsel and made two golden calves. He said to them, “You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough! Here are your gods O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
Isaiah 44:10 - Tree of Life Version Who fashions a god or casts an idol for no profit? 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? |
So the king sought counsel and made two golden calves. He said to them, “You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough! Here are your gods O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
To an idol? A craftsman casts it, a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.
Indeed, they are all a delusion. Their works are null. Their molten images are wind and waste.
“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.
Like a scarecrow in a cucumber garden, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk! Do not fear them for they can do no harm —nor do any good.”
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.”
King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide. He set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
Nebuchadnezzar responded to them saying, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, that you don’t serve my gods or worship the golden image that I set up?
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.
You see and hear that not only in Ephesus but also throughout all Asia, Paul has persuaded and perverted a considerable crowd, saying that handmade gods are not gods at all.
Therefore concerning the eating of idol sacrifices, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.