Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
A goldsmith
And a silversmith fashions chains of silver.
King James Version
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
Holman Bible
and a metalworker plates with gold
and makes silver welds for it?
International Standard Version
To an idol? A craftsman makes the image, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts silver chains.
A Conservative Version
The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.
American Standard Version
The image, a workman hath cast it , and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it'silver chains.
Amplified
As for the cast image (idol), a metalworker casts it,
A goldsmith overlays it with gold
And a silversmith casts its silver chains.
Bible in Basic English
The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.
Darby Translation
The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains for it.
Julia Smith Translation
The artificer cast the carved image, and the founder will spread it out with gold, and he smelted chains of silver.
King James 2000
The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A craftsman pours out the idol, and a {goldsmith} overlays it with gold, and [he] smelts chains of silver.
Modern King James verseion
The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Shall the carver make him a carved image? And shall the goldsmith cover him with gold, or cast him into a form of silver plates?
NET Bible
A craftsman casts an idol; a metalsmith overlays it with gold and forges silver chains for it.
New Heart English Bible
A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
The Emphasized Bible
The image, hath been cast by an artificer, And a goldsmith, with gold, overlayeth it, - And, chains of silver, he worketh.
Webster
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
World English Bible
A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
Youngs Literal Translation
The graven image poured out hath a artisan, And a refiner with gold spreadeth it over, And chains of silver he is refining.
Themes
Art » Primitive » Of the goldsmith
Arts and crafts » Names of various » Goldsmiths
Topics
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 40:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
Comfort For God's People
18
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
19
A goldsmith
And a silversmith fashions chains of silver.
Cross References
Psalm 115:4-8
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Jeremiah 10:9
Silver spread into plates shall be brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, shall the workman work and the hands of the founder: they shall dress them in blue and purple: they are all the work of cunning men.
Habakkuk 2:18-19
Of what profit is the graven image that its maker has sculpted; the molten image, that teaches lies, so that in making dumb images the maker trusts in his work?
Exodus 32:2-4
And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
Judges 17:4
After the money was restored unto her, his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image, which was set up in the house of Micah.
Psalm 135:15
The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psalm 135:18
Let those that make them become like unto them and every one that trusts in them.
Isaiah 2:20
In that day man shall cast his idols of silver and his idols of gold (which they made each one for himself to worship) into the caves of the moles and of the bats,
Isaiah 37:18-19
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their countries
Isaiah 44:10-12
Who has formed God? And who cast a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Isaiah 46:6-7
They lavish gold out of the bag and weigh silver in the balance and hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god; they fall down and worship.
Jeremiah 10:3-5
For the customs of the peoples are vanity: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Hosea 8:6
For it is of Israel; and a workman made it who is not God: because the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
Isaiah 41:6-7
Each one helped his neighbour; and each one said to his brother, Be of good courage.