Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of naught. An abomination is he who chooses you.

New American Standard Bible

Behold, you are of no account,
And your work amounts to nothing;
He who chooses you is an abomination.

King James Version

Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.

Holman Bible

Look, you are nothing
and your work is worthless.
Anyone who chooses you is detestable.

International Standard Version

"Look! You and your work are less than nothing; whoever finds you pleasing is disgusting."

American Standard Version

Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you.

Amplified


Hear this! You [idols] are less than nothing,
And your work is worthless;
The worshiper who chooses you [as a god] is repulsive.

Bible in Basic English

But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish is he who takes you for his gods.

Darby Translation

Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you. ...

Julia Smith Translation

Behold, ye are from nothing, and your work no more: an abomination he will choose in you.

King James 2000

Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is nothing: an abomination is he that chooses you.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Look! you [are] nothing, and your work [is] something worthless; whoever chooses you [is] an abomination.

Modern King James verseion

Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Behold, ye gods are of naught, and your making is of naught; yea, abominable is the man that hath chosen you.

NET Bible

Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent; the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting.

New Heart English Bible

Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

The Emphasized Bible

Lo! ye, are, of nought, And your work is a puff of breath, - An abomination, he that chooseth you!

Webster

Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of naught: an abomination is he that chooseth you.

World English Bible

Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

Youngs Literal Translation

Lo, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought, An abomination -- it fixeth on you.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
and your work
פּעל 
Po`al 
Usage: 37

of nought
אפע 
'epha` 
of nought
Usage: 1

תּעבה תּועבה 
Tow`ebah 
Usage: 117

is he that chooseth
בּחר 
Bachar 
Usage: 169

References

Hastings

Smith

Watsons

War

Context Readings

God Helps Israel

23 Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods. Yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. 24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of naught. An abomination is he who chooses you. 25 I have raised up him from the north, and he has come, him who calls upon my name from the rising of the sun. And he shall come upon rulers as upon mortar, and as the potter treads clay.

Cross References

Psalm 115:8

Those who make them shall be like them. Yea, everyone who trusts in them.

1 Corinthians 8:4

Therefore about eating the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.

Isaiah 41:29

Behold, all of them, their works are vanity [and] nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

Deuteronomy 7:26

And thou shall not bring an abomination into thy house, and become a devoted thing like it. Thou shall utterly detest it, and thou shall utterly abhor it, for it is a cursed thing.

Deuteronomy 27:15

Cursed be the man who makes a graven or molten image, an abomination to LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

Isaiah 37:19

and have cast their gods into the fire. For they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them.

Isaiah 44:9-10

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them vanity. And the things that they delight in shall not profit. And their own witnesses see not, nor know, that they may be put to shame.

Isaiah 66:24

And they shall go forth, and look upon the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me. For their worm shall not die, nor shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are together brutish and foolish, the instruction of idols! It is but a block of wood.

Jeremiah 10:14

Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image. For his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Jeremiah 51:17-18

Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Revelation 17:5

and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF WHORES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

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