Isaiah 40:19

Comfort For God's People

¹⁸ Who will you compare God with?
What likeness will you compare Him to?
¹⁹ To an idol?—something that a smelter casts,
and a metalworker plates with gold
and makes silver welds for it?
²⁰ To one who shapes a pedestal,
choosing wood that does not rot?
He looks for a skilled craftsman
to set up an idol that will not fall over.

Carved Image

Graven Image

Psalm 115:4-8

Their idols are silver and gold,
made by human hands.

Jeremiah 10:9

Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish,
and gold from Uphaz
from the hands of a goldsmith,
the work of a craftsman.
Their clothing is blue and purple,
all the work of skilled artisans.

Habakkuk 2:18-19

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.

Exodus 32:2-4

Then Aaron replied to them, “Take off the gold rings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters and bring them to me.”

Judges 17:4

So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took five pounds of silver and gave it to a silversmith. He made it into a carved image overlaid with silver, and it was in Micah’s house.

Psalm 135:15

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

Psalm 135:18

Those who make them are just like them,
as are all who trust in them.

Isaiah 2:20

On that day people will throw
their silver and gold idols,
which they made to worship,
to the moles and the bats.

Isaiah 37:18-19

Lord, it is true that the kings of Assyria have devastated all these countries and their lands.

Isaiah 44:10-12

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

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.

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.

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!

Isaiah 41:6-7

Each one helps the other,
and says to another, “Take courage!”