Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

The idols of the nations are but silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.

King James Version

The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

American Standard Version

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.

Amplified


The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
The work of men’s hands.

Bible in Basic English

The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Darby Translation

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands:

Julia Smith Translation

The images of the nation are silver and gold, the work of man's hands.

King James 2000

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The idols of the nations [are] silver and gold, [the] work of the hands of humankind.

Modern King James verseion

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

As for the images of the heathen, they are but silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

NET Bible

The nations' idols are made of silver and gold, they are man-made.

New Heart English Bible

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

The Emphasized Bible

The idols of the nations, are silver and gold, the work of the hands of men:

Webster

The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

World English Bible

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Youngs Literal Translation

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, Work of the hands of man.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The idols
עצב 
`atsab 
Usage: 17

of the heathen
גּי גּוי 
Gowy 
Usage: 558

כּסף 
Keceph 
Usage: 403

and gold
זהב 
Zahab 
Usage: 390

the work
מעשׂה 
Ma`aseh 
Usage: 234

of men's
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

References

Easton

Context Readings

Praise To God For His Power And Redemption

14 For the Lord will judge His people
And will have compassion on His servants.
15 The idols of the nations are but silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.
16 They have mouths, but they do not speak;
They have eyes, but they do not see;


Cross References

Psalm 115:4-8

Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.

Deuteronomy 4:28

There you will serve gods, the work of man’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

Isaiah 37:19

and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

Isaiah 40:19-20

As for the idol, a craftsman casts it,
A goldsmith plates it with gold,
And a silversmith fashions chains of silver.

Isaiah 44:9-20

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.

Isaiah 46:6-7

“Those who lavish gold from the purse
And weigh silver on the scale
Hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;
They bow down, indeed they worship it.

Jeremiah 10:3-11

For the customs of the peoples are delusion;
Because it is wood cut from the forest,
The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

Habakkuk 2:18-19

“What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,
Or an image, a teacher of falsehood?
For its maker trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.

Acts 17:29

Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.

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