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
Each one helps his neighbor; he says to his brother, "Take courage!"
Isaiah 46:6
Those who lavish gold from [the] purse and weigh out silver in the balance scales; hire {a goldsmith} and he makes him a god; they bow down, indeed they bow in worship.
Exodus 32:4
And he took from their hand, and he shaped it with a tool, and he made it a cast-image bull calf, and they said, "These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt."
Jeremiah 10:3
For the statutes of the peoples [are] vanity, for it [is] a tree cut down from [the] forest, [the] work of [the] hands of a craftsman with the tool.
The tongs
Habakkuk 2:13
Look! [Is it] not from Yahweh of hosts that people labor for mere fire, and nations exhaust themselves for mere vanity?
General references
Psalm 107:5
Hungry and thirsty, their soul grew faint within them.
Isaiah 40:19
A craftsman pours out the idol, and a {goldsmith} overlays it with gold, and [he] smelts chains of silver.