Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you.
New American Standard Bible
And
He who chooses you is an
King James Version
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
Holman Bible
and your work is worthless.
Anyone who chooses you is detestable.
International Standard Version
"Look! You and your work are less than nothing; whoever finds you pleasing is disgusting."
A Conservative Version
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of naught. An abomination is he who chooses you.
Amplified
Hear this! You [idols] are less than nothing,
And your work is worthless;
The worshiper who chooses you [as a god] is repulsive.
Bible in Basic English
But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish is he who takes you for his gods.
Darby Translation
Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you. ...
Julia Smith Translation
Behold, ye are from nothing, and your work no more: an abomination he will choose in you.
King James 2000
Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is nothing: an abomination is he that chooses you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look! you [are] nothing, and your work [is] something worthless; whoever chooses you [is] an abomination.
Modern King James verseion
Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Behold, ye gods are of naught, and your making is of naught; yea, abominable is the man that hath chosen you.
NET Bible
Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent; the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting.
New Heart English Bible
Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.
The Emphasized Bible
Lo! ye, are, of nought, And your work is a puff of breath, - An abomination, he that chooseth you!
Webster
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of naught: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
World English Bible
Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.
Youngs Literal Translation
Lo, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought, An abomination -- it fixeth on you.
Interlinear
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 41:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Helps Israel
23 Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. 24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you. 25 I have raised up one from the north, and he is come; from the rising of the sun one that calleth upon my name: and he shall come upon rulers as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 115:8
They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them.
1 Corinthians 8:4
Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one.
Isaiah 41:29
Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.
Deuteronomy 7:26
And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, and become a devoted thing like unto it: thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
Deuteronomy 27:15
Cursed be the man that maketh a graven or molten image, an abomination unto Jehovah, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and setteth it up in secret. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
Isaiah 37:19
and have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
Isaiah 44:9-10
They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses see not, nor know: that they may be put to shame.
Isaiah 66:24
And they shall go forth, and look upon the dead bodies of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
Jeremiah 10:14
Every man is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Jeremiah 51:17-18
Every man is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Revelation 17:5
and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.