Parallel Verses
King James 2000
The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.
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.
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
Interlinear
Charash
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 40:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
Comfort For God's People
18 To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare unto him? 19 The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains. 20 He that is so impoverished that he has no offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks unto him a skillful workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not move.
Cross References
Psalm 115:4-8
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Jeremiah 10:9
Silver beaten into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman, and of the hands of the goldsmith: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of skillful men.
Habakkuk 2:18-19
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?
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
Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the silversmith, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
Psalm 135:15
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psalm 135:18
They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusts in them.
Isaiah 2:20
In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made, each for himself to worship, to the moles and to 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 fashions a god, or molds 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, yea, they worship.
Jeremiah 10:3-5
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Hosea 8:6
For from Israel is even this: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
Isaiah 41:6-7
They helped everyone his neighbor; and everyone said to his brother, Be of good courage.