Isaiah 44:12

The workman of iron with an axe also worked with coal, and he will cleave it with hammers, and will work with the arm of his strength: also he hungered and no strength: he drank not water and was wearied.

Isaiah 40:19

The artificer cast the carved image, and the founder will spread it out with gold, and he smelted chains of silver.

Isaiah 41:6-7

They will help a man his neighbor, and he will say to his brother, Be strong.

Isaiah 46:6-7

Squandering gold out of the bag and they will weigh silver in the balance, they will hire a founder, and he will make it a god: they will fall down, they will also worship

Exodus 32:4

And he will take from their hand, and will form it with a graver, and he will make it a molten calf: and they will say, These thy gods, Israel, who brought thee up from the land of Egypt

Exodus 32:8

For they turned aside quickly from the way which I commanded them: they made for them a molten calf, and worship to it, and will sacrifice to it, and will say, These thy gods, Israel, which raised thee up out of the land of Egypt

Jeremiah 10:3-11

For the laws of the peoples, this vanity: for they cut down a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not from Jehovah of armies, and the peoples shall labor in a sufficiency of fire, and the peoples shall be wearied in a sufficiency of emptiness?

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Summary

The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.

The tongs

General references

Bible References

The smith isa 40

Isaiah 41:6
They will help a man his neighbor, and he will say to his brother, Be strong.
Isaiah 46:6
Squandering gold out of the bag and they will weigh silver in the balance, they will hire a founder, and he will make it a god: they will fall down, they will also worship
Exodus 32:4
And he will take from their hand, and will form it with a graver, and he will make it a molten calf: and they will say, These thy gods, Israel, who brought thee up from the land of Egypt
Jeremiah 10:3
For the laws of the peoples, this vanity: for they cut down a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

The tongs

Habakkuk 2:13
Behold, is it not from Jehovah of armies, and the peoples shall labor in a sufficiency of fire, and the peoples shall be wearied in a sufficiency of emptiness?

General references

Psalm 107:5
Hungering, also thirsting, their soul will faint in them.
Isaiah 40:19
The artificer cast the carved image, and the founder will spread it out with gold, and he smelted chains of silver.