Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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 smith isa 40
The tongs
General references
Bible References
The smith isa 40
Isaiah 41:6
They help every man his neighbor, and says to his brother, Be of good courage.
Isaiah 46:6
Such as lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, they hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down, yea, they worship.
Exodus 32:4
And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf. And they said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Jeremiah 10:3
For the customs of the peoples are vanity. For [a man] cuts 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 of LORD of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
General references
Psalm 107:5
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
Isaiah 40:19
The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.