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 tongs

General references

Bible References

The smith isa 40

Isaiah 41:6
Every man, to his neighbour, giveth help, - And to his brother, saith Take courage!
Isaiah 46:6
They who pour gold out of a purse, And who weigh silver in a balance, - Who hire a goldsmith that he may make it into a GOD, They adore, yea they bow down;
Exodus 32:4
And he received the gold 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, who brought thee up, out of the land of Egypt.
Jeremiah 10:3
For as for the prescribed customs of the peoples, vanity, they are, - For a tree out of the forest, one cutteth down, Work for the hands of a skilled workman with the axe:

The tongs

Habakkuk 2:13
Lo! is it not from Yahweh of hosts - that peoples labour for fire, and, populations, for emptiness, weary themselves?

General references

Psalm 107:5
Hungry - yea thirsty, their soul, within them, fainted:
Isaiah 40:19
The image, hath been cast by an artificer, And a goldsmith, with gold, overlayeth it, - And, chains of silver, he worketh.