Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Or
For its maker
When he fashions speechless idols.
King James Version
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Holman Bible
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.
International Standard Version
"Where is the benefit in owning a carved image, that motivates its maker to carve it? It is only a cast image a teacher that lies because the engraver entrusts himself to his carving, crafting speechless idols.
A Conservative Version
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?
American Standard Version
What profiteth the graven image, that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he that fashioneth its form trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Amplified
“What profit is the carved image when its maker has formed it?
It is only a cast image, and a teacher of lies.
For its maker trusts in his own creation [as his god]
When he makes speechless idols.
Bible in Basic English
What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice?
Darby Translation
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it? the molten image, and the teacher of falsehood, that the maker of his work dependeth thereon, to make dumb idols?
Julia Smith Translation
What profited the carved image that he forming it carved it? the molten image and he teaching falsehood, that the former of his forming trusted upon it to make nothings being dumb?
King James 2000
What profits the graven image that its maker has shaped it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make dumb idols?
Lexham Expanded Bible
What value [is] an idol when its carver has fashioned it, a molten idol, a teacher of lies? For [he who] fashioned his creation trusts in it, [though] making mute idols!
Modern King James verseion
What does an image profit, for its maker has carved it; a molten image, and a teacher of lies? For does the maker trust in his work on it, to make dumb idols?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
What help then will the Image do, whom the workman hath fashioned? Or the vain cast Image, wherein because the craftsmen putteth his trust, therefore maketh he dumb Idols?
NET Bible
What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things?
New Heart English Bible
"What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
The Emphasized Bible
What hath a carved image, profited, though the fashioner thereof, carved it? a molten image, and a teacher of falsehood, - though the fashioner of his fashioned thing trusted therein? that men should make Dumb Nonentities!
Webster
What profiteth the graven image that its maker hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
World English Bible
"What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
Youngs Literal Translation
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?
Themes
Carving » Idols manufactured by
Idolatry » Objects of, described as » Dumb idols
Idolatry » Objects of, described as » Molten images
Idolatry » Objects of, described as » Teachers of lies
Profit » What is not profitable
Trust » Those that trust in idols
Trust » Of the wicked » Is in idols
Interlinear
Yatsar
יצר
Yatsar
form, potter, fashion, maker, frame, make, former, earthen, purposed
Usage: 62
Yarah
Batach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Habakkuk 2:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Doom On The Unrighteous
17
And the devastation of its beasts
To the town and all its inhabitants.
Or
For its maker
When he fashions speechless idols.
To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’
And that is your teacher?
Behold, it is overlaid with
And there is
Cross References
Jeremiah 10:8
In their discipline of
Zechariah 10:2
And the
And tell
They comfort in vain.
Therefore the people
They are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.
Isaiah 42:17
Who trust in
Who say to molten images,
“You are our gods.”
Isaiah 44:9-10
Those who fashion
Jeremiah 2:27-28
And to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their
And not their face;
But in the
‘Arise and save us.’
1 Corinthians 12:2
Psalm 115:4-8
The
Psalm 135:15-18
The work of man’s hands.
Isaiah 1:31
His work also a spark.
Thus they shall both
And there will be
Isaiah 37:38
It came about as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons killed him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of
Isaiah 44:14-20
Surely he cuts cedars for himself, and takes a
Isaiah 45:16
The
Isaiah 45:20
Draw near together, you fugitives of the nations;
Who
And
Isaiah 46:1-2
Their images are consigned to the beasts and the cattle.
The things
A load for the weary beast.
Isaiah 46:6-8
And weigh silver on the scale
Hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;
They
Jeremiah 10:3-5
Because
The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.
Jeremiah 10:14-15
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his
For his molten images are deceitful,
And there is no breath in them.
Jeremiah 50:2
Proclaim it and
Do not conceal it but say,
‘
Her
Jonah 2:8
Forsake their faithfulness,
Romans 1:23-25
and
Romans 6:21
Therefore what
2 Thessalonians 2:9-11
that is, the one whose
1 Timothy 4:1-2
But
Revelation 13:11-15
Then
Revelation 19:20
And the beast was seized, and with him the