Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.

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 coming hereafter, And we know that ye are gods, Yea, ye may do good or do evil, And we look around and see it together. 24 Lo, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought, An abomination -- it fixeth on you. 25 I have stirred up one from the north, And he cometh, From the rising of the sun he calleth in My name, And he cometh in on prefects as on clay, And as a potter treadeth down mire.



Cross References

Psalm 115:8

Nor do they mutter through their throat, Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.

1 Corinthians 8:4

Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;

Isaiah 41:29

Lo, all of them are vanity, Nought are their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!'

Deuteronomy 7:26

and thou dost not bring in an abomination unto thy house -- or thou hast been devoted like it; -- thou dost utterly detest it, and thou dost utterly abominate it; for it is devoted.

Deuteronomy 27:15

Cursed is the man who maketh a graven and molten image, the abomination of Jehovah, work of the hands of an artificer, and hath put it in a secret place, -- and all the people have answered and said, Amen.

Isaiah 37:19

so as to put their gods into fire -- for they are no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone -- and they destroy them.

Isaiah 44:9-10

Framers of a graven image are all of them emptiness, And their desirable things do not profit, And their own witnesses they are, They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.

Isaiah 66:24

And they have gone forth, And looked on the carcases of the men Who are transgressing against me, For their worm dieth not, And their fire is not quenched, And they have been an abhorrence to all flesh!

Jeremiah 10:8

And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities is the tree itself.

Jeremiah 10:14

Brutish is every man by knowledge, Put to shame is every refiner by a graven image, For false is his molten image. And there is no breath in them.

Jeremiah 51:17-18

Brutish hath been every man by knowledge, Put to shame hath been every refiner by a graven image, For false is his molten image, And there is no breath in them.

Revelation 17:5

and upon her forehead was a name written: 'Secret, Babylon the Great, the Mother of the Whores, and the Abominations of the earth.'

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