Psalm 115:4

Dead Idols And The Living God

³ Our God is in heaven
and does whatever He pleases. ⁴ Their idols are silver and gold,
made by human hands.
⁵ They have mouths but cannot speak,
eyes, but cannot see.

Silver and Gold

Deuteronomy 4:28

There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.

Jeremiah 10:3-5

for the customs of the peoples are worthless.
Someone cuts down a tree from the forest;
it is worked by the hands of a craftsman with a chisel.

Acts 19:26

You both see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and misled a considerable number of people by saying that gods made by hand are not gods!

2 Kings 19:18

They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but made by human hands—wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

Psalm 97:7

All who serve carved images,
those who boast in idols, will be put to shame.
All the gods must worship Him.

Psalm 135:15-18

The idols of the nations are of silver and gold,
made by human hands.

Isaiah 37:19

They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but made by human hands—wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

Isaiah 40:19-20

To an idol?—something that a smelter casts,
and a metalworker plates with gold
and makes silver welds for it?

Isaiah 42:17

They will be turned back and utterly ashamed—
those who trust in idols
and say to metal-plated images:
You are our gods!

Isaiah 44:10

Who makes a god or casts a metal image
for no profit?

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes.
His deceived mind has led him astray,
and he cannot deliver himself,
or say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”

Isaiah 46:1-2

Bel crouches; Nebo cowers.
Their idols are consigned to beasts and cattle.
The images you carry are loaded,
as a burden for the weary animal.

Isaiah 46:6-7

Those who pour out their bags of gold
and weigh out silver on scales—
they hire a goldsmith and he makes it into a god.
Then they kneel and bow down to it.

Hosea 8:6

For this thing is from Israel—
a craftsman made it, and it is not God.
The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!

Habakkuk 2:18-20

What use is a carved idol
after its craftsman carves it?
It is only a cast image, a teacher of lies.
For the one who crafts its shape trusts in it
and makes idols that cannot speak.

Acts 19:35

However, when the city clerk had calmed the crowd down, he said, “Men of Ephesus! What man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple guardian of the great Artemis, and of the image that fell from heaven?

1 Corinthians 10:19-20

What am I saying then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?