Isaiah 40:19

Comfort For God's People

¹⁸ To whom then will you liken God?
Or what likeness will you compare with Him?
¹⁹ As for the idol, a craftsman casts it,
A goldsmith plates it with gold,
And a silversmith fashions chains of silver.
²⁰ He who is too impoverished for such an offering
Selects a tree that does not rot;
He seeks out for himself a skillful craftsman
To prepare an idol that will not totter.

Carved Image

Graven Image

Psalm 115:4-8

Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.

Jeremiah 10:9

Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish,
And gold from Uphaz,
The work of a craftsman and of the hands of a goldsmith;
Violet and purple are their clothing;
They are all the work of skilled men.

Habakkuk 2:18-19

“What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,
Or an image, a teacher of falsehood?
For its maker trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.

Exodus 32:2-4

Aaron said to them, “Tear off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”

Judges 17:4

So when he returned the silver to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith who made them into a graven image and a molten image, and they were in the house of Micah.

Psalm 135:15

The idols of the nations are but silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.

Psalm 135:18

Those who make them will be like them,
Yes, everyone who trusts in them.

Isaiah 2:20

In that day men will cast away to the moles and the bats
Their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
Which they made for themselves to worship,

Isaiah 37:18-19

Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have devastated all the countries and their lands,

Isaiah 44:10-12

Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no profit?

Isaiah 46:6-7

“Those who lavish gold from the purse
And weigh silver on the scale
Hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;
They bow down, indeed they worship it.

Jeremiah 10:3-5

For the customs of the peoples are delusion;
Because it is wood cut from the forest,
The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

Hosea 8:6

For from Israel is even this!
A craftsman made it, so it is not God;
Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces.

Isaiah 41:6-7

Each one helps his neighbor
And says to his brother, “Be strong!”