Parallel Verses

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.

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."

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. ...

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.

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 Either, let them show us things for to come, and tell us what shall be done hereafter: so shall we know, that they be gods. Show something, either good or bad: so will we both knowledge the same, and tell it out. 24 Behold, ye gods are of naught, and your making is of naught; yea, abominable is the man that hath chosen you. 25 Nevertheless, I have waked up one from the North, and he shall come. And another from the East, which shall call upon my name, and shall come to the princes, as the Potter to his clay, and as the Potter treadeth down the mire.

Cross References

Psalm 115:8

They that make them, are like unto them; and so are all such as put their trust in them.

1 Corinthians 8:4

To speak of meat dedicated unto idols, we are sure that there is none idol in the world: and that there is none other God but one.

Isaiah 41:29

Lo, wicked are they and vain, with the things also that they take in hand: yea, their images are but wind and emptiness.

Deuteronomy 7:26

Bring not therefore the Abomination to thine house, lest thou be a damned thing as it is: but utterly defy it and abhor it, for it is a thing that must be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 27:15

Cursed be he that maketh any carved image or image of metal - an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman - and putteth it in a secret place.' And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'

Isaiah 37:19

and cast their gods in the fire. Notwithstanding, those were no gods; but the works of men's hands, of wood or stone, therefore have they destroyed them.

Isaiah 44:9-10

All carvers of Images are but vain, and the carved images that they love can do no good. They must bear record themselves, that seeing they can neither see nor understand they shall be confounded.

Isaiah 66:24

And they shall go forth and look upon the carrions of them that have transgressed against me. For their worms shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and all flesh shall abhor them.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are altogether unlearned and unwise. All their cunning is but vanity:

Jeremiah 10:14

His wisdom maketh all men fools. And confounded be all casters of images, for that they cast is but a vain thing, and hath no life.

Jeremiah 51:17-18

By the reason of wisdom, all men are become fools. Confounded be all the casters of images: for the thing that they make is but deceit, and hath no breath.

Revelation 17:5

And in her forehead was a name written, a mystery: "Great Babylon, the mother of whoredom and abominations of the earth."

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