Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Behold, all of them, their works are vanity [and] nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.
New American Standard Bible
Their
Their molten images are
King James Version
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
Holman Bible
their works are nonexistent;
their images are wind and emptiness.
International Standard Version
See, none of them exist, and their deeds are nothing. Their metal images are only wind and confusion.'"
American Standard Version
Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.
Amplified
“In fact, all of these [pagan prophets and priests] are false;
Their works are worthless,
Their cast images are [merely] wind and emptiness.
Bible in Basic English
Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.
Darby Translation
Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nought, their molten images are wind and emptiness.
Julia Smith Translation
Behold, all of them, nothing; their works are no more: wind and emptiness are their libations.
King James 2000
Behold, they are all worthless; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look! All of them [are] deception; their works [are] nothing; their images [are] wind and emptiness.
Modern King James verseion
Behold, they are all evil; their works are nothing; their images are wind and vanity.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Lo, wicked are they and vain, with the things also that they take in hand: yea, their images are but wind and emptiness.
NET Bible
Look, all of them are nothing, their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance.
New Heart English Bible
Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.
The Emphasized Bible
Lo! as to all of them, Vanity - nothingness, are their works, Wind and emptiness, their molten images!
Webster
Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
World English Bible
Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.
Youngs Literal Translation
Lo, all of them are vanity, Nought are their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!'
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 41:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Helps Israel
28 And when I look, there is no man. Even among them there is no counselor, that, when I ask of them, can answer a word. 29 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity [and] nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.
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Cross References
Isaiah 41:24
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of naught. An abomination is he who chooses you.
Jeremiah 5:13
And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them.
Psalm 115:4-8
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psalm 135:15-18
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Isaiah 44:9-20
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.
Jeremiah 10:2-16
Thus says LORD: Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven, for the nations are dismayed at them.
Habakkuk 2:18
What profits the graven image, that the maker of it has engraved it, the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make dumb idols?