Isaiah 44:9

Idolatry Is Ridiculous

⁸ Do not fear, neither be afraid; have I not caused thee to hear from of old and declared unto thee beforehand that which was to come? Then ye are my witnesses that there is no God but me, and there is no Strong One that I do not know. ⁹ Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame. ¹⁰ Who has formed God? And who cast a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

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Isaiah 41:24

Behold, ye are of nothing and your works of vanity; an abomination is he that chooses you.

Psalm 97:7

Let all those that serve graven images be confounded, those that boast of idols; worship him, all ye gods.

Isaiah 41:29

Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

Deuteronomy 27:15

Cursed is the man that makes any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and puts it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

Judges 10:14

Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your affliction.

1 Kings 18:26-40

And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it and invoked in the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, answer us. But there was no voice nor anyone that answered. And they jumped up and down near the altar which they had made.

Psalm 115:8

Let those that make them become like unto them, and every one that trusts in them.

Psalm 135:18

Let those that make them become like unto them and every one that trusts in them.

Isaiah 2:20-21

In that day man shall cast his idols of silver and his idols of gold (which they made each one for himself to worship) into the caves of the moles and of the bats,

Isaiah 37:18-20

Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their countries

Isaiah 42:18

Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

Isaiah 43:8

Bring forth the people that is blind that have eyes and the deaf that have ears.

Isaiah 44:18

They did not know nor understand; for he has anointed their eyes that they not see and their hearts that they not understand.

Isaiah 44:20

The ashes feed him; his deceived heart inclines him, that he not deliver his soul and say, Is not the lie at my right hand?

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, all ye that are escaped of the Gentiles. They have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image and pray unto the god that does not save.

Isaiah 46:1-2

Bel bowed down; Nebo is fallen; their images were placed upon animals and upon beasts of burden that will carry you, laden with yourselves, burden of weariness.

Isaiah 46:6-7

They lavish gold out of the bag and weigh silver in the balance and hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god; they fall down and worship.

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation changed their gods? Even though they are not gods. But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

Jeremiah 2:27-28

saying to a piece of firewood, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they say, Arise and deliver us.

Jeremiah 10:3-8

For the customs of the peoples are vanity: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

Jeremiah 10:14-15

Every man is carnal in his knowledge: let every founder be ashamed of his graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no spirit in them.

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause it to rain? or can the heavens give rain? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee, for thou hast made all these things.

Jeremiah 16:19-20

O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the time of the affliction; Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.

Daniel 5:23

but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy princes, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; furthermore, thou hast praised gods of silver and of gold, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand is thy soul and whose are all thy ways, thou hast never honoured.

Daniel 11:38

But in his place shall he honour the god of fortresses, , a god whom his fathers did not know; he shall honour it with gold and silver and precious stones and with things of great price.

Hosea 8:4-6

They have reigned, but not by me; they have made dominion, and I knew it not; of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols that they may be cut off.

Habakkuk 2:18-20

Of what profit is the graven image that its maker has sculpted; the molten image, that teaches lies, so that in making dumb images the maker trusts in his work?

Romans 1:22

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools

1 Corinthians 8:4

As concerning, therefore, the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

2 Corinthians 4:4

In whom the god of this age has blinded the understanding of those who do not believe, that the light of the gospel of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine in them.

Ephesians 4:18

having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart,

Ephesians 5:8

For in another time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk as children of light;