Isaiah 44:9

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Isaiah 44:9

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Summary

They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

Make

And their

Delectable

Daniel 11:38

Their own

General references

Isaiah 45:16

Bible References

Make

Behold, you are of no account,
And your work amounts to nothing;
He who chooses you is an abomination.

‘Cursed is the man who makes

an idol or a molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

Let all those be ashamed who serve graven images,
Who boast themselves of idols;

Worship Him, all you gods.

For the customs of the peoples are

delusion;

Because it is wood cut from the forest,
The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

And their

In that day men will cast away to the moles and the bats
Their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
Which they made for themselves to worship,

Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have devastated all the countries and their lands,

Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over;

Their images are consigned to the beasts and the cattle.
The things that you carry are burdensome,
A load for the weary beast.

Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress.”

Then they took the ox which was given them and they prepared it and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon saying, “O Baal, answer us.” But there was no voice and no one answered. And they leaped about the altar which they made.

“Has a nation changed gods
When they were not gods?
But My people have changed their glory
For that which does not profit.

Are there any among the

idols of the nations who give rain?

Or can the heavens grant showers?
Is it not You, O Lord our God?
Therefore we

hope in You,

For You are the one who has done all these things.

O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
And my refuge in the day of distress,
To You the nations will come
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but falsehood,
Futility and

things of no profit.”

but you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines have been drinking wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which do not see, hear or understand. But the God in whose hand are your life-breath and all your ways, you have not glorified.

They have set up kings, but not by Me;

They have appointed princes, but I did not know it.
With their silver and gold they have made idols for themselves,
That they might be cut off.

“What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,
Or an image, a teacher of falsehood?
For its maker trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and that there is no God but one.

Delectable

But instead he will honor a god of fortresses, a god whom his fathers did not know; he will honor him with gold, silver, costly stones and treasures.

Their own

They do not know, nor do they understand, for He has smeared over their eyes so that they cannot see and their hearts so that they cannot comprehend.

Hear, you deaf!

And look, you blind, that you may see.

Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes,
And the deaf, even though they have ears.

“Gather yourselves and come;
Draw near together, you fugitives of the nations;

They have no knowledge,

Who carry about their wooden idol
And pray to a god who cannot save.

Those who make them will become like them,

Everyone who trusts in them.

Those who make them will be like them,
Yes, everyone who trusts in them.

Professing to be wise, they became fools,

in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light

General references

They will be put to shame and even humiliated, all of them;
The manufacturers of idols will go away together in humiliation.