Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.
New American Standard Bible
A goldsmith
And a silversmith fashions chains of silver.
King James Version
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
Holman Bible
and a metalworker plates with gold
and makes silver welds for it?
International Standard Version
To an idol? A craftsman makes the image, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts silver chains.
American Standard Version
The image, a workman hath cast it , and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it'silver chains.
Amplified
As for the cast image (idol), a metalworker casts it,
A goldsmith overlays it with gold
And a silversmith casts its silver chains.
Bible in Basic English
The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.
Darby Translation
The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains for it.
Julia Smith Translation
The artificer cast the carved image, and the founder will spread it out with gold, and he smelted chains of silver.
King James 2000
The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A craftsman pours out the idol, and a {goldsmith} overlays it with gold, and [he] smelts chains of silver.
Modern King James verseion
The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Shall the carver make him a carved image? And shall the goldsmith cover him with gold, or cast him into a form of silver plates?
NET Bible
A craftsman casts an idol; a metalsmith overlays it with gold and forges silver chains for it.
New Heart English Bible
A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
The Emphasized Bible
The image, hath been cast by an artificer, And a goldsmith, with gold, overlayeth it, - And, chains of silver, he worketh.
Webster
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
World English Bible
A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
Youngs Literal Translation
The graven image poured out hath a artisan, And a refiner with gold spreadeth it over, And chains of silver he is refining.
Themes
Art » Primitive » Of the goldsmith
Arts and crafts » Names of various » Goldsmiths
Topics
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Charash
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 40:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
Comfort For God's People
18 To whom then will ye liken God? Or what likeness will ye compare to him? 19 The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains. 20 He who is too impoverished for [such] an oblation chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks for him a skilful workman to set up a graven image that shall not be moved.
Cross References
Psalm 115:4-8
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Jeremiah 10:9
There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith, blue and purple for their clothing. They are all the work of skilful men.
Habakkuk 2:18-19
What profits the graven image, that the maker of it has engraved it, the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make dumb idols?
Exodus 32:2-4
And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.
Judges 17:4
And when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred [pieces] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it a graven image and a molten image. And it was in the house of Micah.
Psalm 135:15
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psalm 135:18
Those who make them shall be like them, yea, everyone who trusts in them.
Isaiah 2:20
In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats,
Isaiah 37:18-19
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries, and their land,
Isaiah 44:10-12
Who has fashioned a god, or molded an image that is profitable for nothing?
Isaiah 46:6-7
Such as lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, they hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down, yea, they worship.
Jeremiah 10:3-5
For the customs of the peoples are vanity. For [a man] cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
Hosea 8:6
For even this is from Israel: the workman made it, and it is no God. Yea, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
Isaiah 41:6-7
They help every man his neighbor, and says to his brother, Be of good courage.