Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Behold, ye are from nothing, and your work no more: an abomination he will choose in you.
New American Standard Bible
And
He who chooses you is an
King James Version
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
Holman Bible
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."
A Conservative Version
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of naught. An abomination is he who chooses you.
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. ...
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
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 41:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Helps Israel
23 Announce the things coming hereafter, and we shall know that ye are God: also will ye do good or will ye do evil, and we shall look around for help and see together. 24 Behold, ye are from nothing, and your work no more: an abomination he will choose in you. 25 I roused up from the north, and he will come: from the rising of the sun he shall call upon my name: and he shall come upon prefects as clay, and as the potter will tread down the mud.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 115:8
They making them shall be as they; all that trusted in them.
1 Corinthians 8:4
Concerning food therefore of sacrifices to idols, we know that an idol nothing in the world, and that none other God but one.
Isaiah 41:29
Behold, all of them, nothing; their works are no more: wind and emptiness are their libations.
Deuteronomy 7:26
And thou shalt not bring an abomination to thy house, and thou be devoted to destruction like it: abhorring, thou shalt abhor it, and abominating, thou shalt abominate it, for it is devoted to destruction.
Deuteronomy 27:15
Cursed the man, who shall make a graven and molten thing, an abomination of Jehovah, the work of the hand of the artificer, and put it in hiding: and all the people answered and said, Amen.
Isaiah 37:19
And he gave their gods into fire; for they were not God but the work of man's hands, wood and stone: and they will destroy them.
Isaiah 44:9-10
They forming a carved image all of them emptiness; and their delights shall not profit, and they are their witnesses; they will not see and they will not know, so that they shall be ashamed.
Isaiah 66:24
And they went forth and saw the carcasses of the men transgressing against me: for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched; and they were an abhorrence to all flesh.
Jeremiah 10:8
And in one they will become brutish, and they will be foolish: the tree itself a correction of vanities.
Jeremiah 10:14
Every man was brutish from knowledge: every founder was ashamed from his carved image; for his molten image a falsehood, and no spirit in them.
Jeremiah 51:17-18
Every man was brutish from knowledge; every founder was ashamed from his carved image: for his founding is a falsehood, and no spirit in them.
Revelation 17:5
And upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, MOTHER OF HARLOTS, AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.