Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
A craftsman pours out the idol, and a {goldsmith} overlays it with gold, and [he] smelts chains of silver.
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.
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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Charash
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 40:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
Comfort For God's People
18 And to whom will you liken God? And to what likeness will you compare him? 19 A craftsman pours out the idol, and a {goldsmith} overlays it with gold, and [he] smelts chains of silver. 20 The one who is [too] impoverished [for] a gift chooses wood [that] will not rot; he seeks a skillful artisan for himself to set up an image [that] will not be knocked over.
Cross References
Psalm 115:4-8
Their idols [are] silver and gold, [the] work of human hands.
Jeremiah 10:9
Silver beaten from Tarshish is brought, and gold from Uphaz, the work of [the] craftsman and [the] hands of the goldsmith. Blue and purple [are] their clothing, all of them [are] the work of skillful people.
Habakkuk 2:18-19
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!
Exodus 32:2-4
And Aaron said to them, "Take off the rings of gold that [are] on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring [it] to me."
Judges 17:4
When he returned the pieces of silver to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and she gave it to the smith, and he made it [into] an idol of cast metal; and it was in the house of Micah.
Psalm 135:15
The idols of the nations [are] silver and gold, [the] work of the hands of humankind.
Psalm 135:18
[Those who] make them become like them, [as does] everyone who trusts in them.
Isaiah 2:20
On that day humanity will throw away its idols of silver and its idols of gold, which they made for it to worship, to the rodents and to the bats--
Isaiah 37:18-19
Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the lands and their land,
Isaiah 44:10-12
Who would form a god and cast an image of [which] he cannot profit?
Isaiah 46:6-7
Those who lavish gold from [the] purse and weigh out silver in the balance scales; hire {a goldsmith} and he makes him a god; they bow down, indeed they bow in worship.
Jeremiah 10:3-5
For the statutes of the peoples [are] vanity, for it [is] a tree cut down from [the] forest, [the] work of [the] hands of a craftsman with the tool.
Hosea 8:6
Because [it is] from Israel, an artisan made it, it [is] not a god; for the calf of Samaria will be broken [to] pieces.
Isaiah 41:6-7
Each one helps his neighbor; he says to his brother, "Take courage!"