Isaiah 44:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹² The blacksmith [makes] an axe, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² The ironsmith sharpens and uses a chisel and works it over the coals; he shapes [the core of the idol] with hammers and forges it with his strong arm. He becomes hungry and his strength fails; he drinks no water and is faint.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² The smith maketh an axe, and worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with his strong arm: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth; he drinketh no water, and is faint.

Common English Bible

¹² A blacksmith with his tools works it over coals, and shapes it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He even becomes hungry and weak. If he didn’t drink water, he’d pass out.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² The maker of iron has wrought with his file. With coals and hammers, he has formed it, and he has wrought with the strength of his arm. He will hunger and grow faint. He will not drink water, and he will become weary.

Isaiah 44:12 Tagairtí Cros

Exodus 32:4

He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, *These are your gods, Yisra'el, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.*

Exodus 32:8

They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Yisra'el, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'*

Isaiah 40:19

A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.

Isaiah 40:20

He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, isn't it of the LORD of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

Habakkuk 2:18

*What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

Zechariah 1:20

The LORD showed me four craftsmen.

Deuteronomy 4:28

There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.