Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out -- not profitable?
New American Standard Bible
Who has fashioned a god or cast
King James Version
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Holman Bible
for no profit?
International Standard Version
Who would shape a god or cast an image that profits nothing?
A Conservative Version
Who has fashioned a god, or molded an image that is profitable for nothing?
American Standard Version
Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
Amplified
Who has made a god or cast an idol which is profitable for nothing?
Bible in Basic English
Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.
Darby Translation
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Julia Smith Translation
Who formed a god and a carved molten image, profiting for nothing?
King James 2000
Who fashions a god, or molds a graven image, that is profitable for nothing?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Who would form a god and cast an image of [which] he cannot profit?
Modern King James verseion
Who has formed a god, or melted a graven image that is good for nothing?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Who should now make a God, or fashion an Image, that is profitable for nothing?
NET Bible
Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?
New Heart English Bible
Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?
The Emphasized Bible
Who hath fashioned a GOD, Oran image, hath molten? It cannot profit!
Webster
Who hath formed a god, or cast a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
World English Bible
Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?
Themes
Carving » Idols manufactured by
Idolatry » Making idols for the purpose of, described and ridiculed
Ignorance » Of self » It misleads, fetters and deceives men
Knowledge » Who has no knowledge
Profit » What is not profitable
ignorance of Self » It misleads, fetters and deceives men
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Yatsar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 44:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Idolatry Is Ridiculous
9 Framers of a graven image are all of them emptiness, And their desirable things do not profit, And their own witnesses they are, They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed. 10 Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out -- not profitable? 11 Lo, all his companions are ashamed, As to artisans -- they are of men, All of them gather together, they stand up, They fear, they are ashamed together.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 10:5
As a palm they are stiff, and they speak not, They are surely borne, for they step not, Be not afraid of them, for they do no evil, Yea, also to do good is not in them.
Habakkuk 2:18
What profit hath a graven image given That its former hath graven it? A molten image and teacher of falsehood, That trusted hath the former on his own formation -- to make dumb idols?
Acts 19:26
and ye see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but almost in all Asia, this Paul, having persuaded, did turn away a great multitude, saying, that they are not gods who are made by hands;
1 Kings 12:28
And the king taketh counsel, and maketh two calves of gold, and saith unto them, 'Enough to you of going up to Jerusalem; lo, thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'
Isaiah 41:29
Lo, all of them are vanity, Nought are their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!'
Daniel 3:1
Nebuchadnezzar the king hath made an image of gold, its height sixty cubits, its breadth six cubits; he hath raised it up in the valley of Dura, in the province of Babylon;
Daniel 3:14
Nebuchadnezzar hath answered and said to them, 'Is it a laid plan, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego -- my gods ye are not serving, and to the golden image that I have raised up ye are not doing obeisance?
1 Corinthians 8:4
Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;