Isaiah 44:9

Idolatry Is Ridiculous

⁸ yea, and that without any fear or stop. For have not I ever told you hitherto, and warned you? Ye can bear me record yourselves. Is there any God except me? Or any maker, that I should not know him? ⁹ All carvers of Images are but vain, and the carved images that they love can do no good. They must bear record themselves, that seeing they can neither see nor understand they shall be confounded. ¹⁰ Who should now make a God, or fashion an Image, that is profitable for nothing?

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Have No Knowledge

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Isaiah 41:24

Behold, ye gods are of naught, and your making is of naught; yea, abominable is the man that hath chosen you.

Psalm 97:7

Confounded be all they that worship images, and delight in their idols; worship him all ye gods.

Isaiah 41:29

Lo, wicked are they and vain, with the things also that they take in hand: yea, their images are but wind and emptiness.

Deuteronomy 27:15

Cursed be he that maketh any carved image or image of metal - an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman - and putteth it in a secret place.' And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'

Judges 10:14

But go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen, and let them save you in the time of your tribulation."

1 Kings 18:26-40

And they took the ox that was given them and dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning to noon saying, "O Baal, hear us!" But there was no voice nor answer. And they leapt about the altar that they had made.

Psalm 115:8

They that make them, are like unto them; and so are all such as put their trust in them.

Psalm 135:18

They that make them are like unto them; and so are all they that put their trust in them.

Isaiah 2:20-21

Then, then shall man cast away his gods of silver and gold - which he nevertheless had made to honour them - unto moles and bats

Isaiah 37:18-20

It is true, O LORD, that the kings of Assyria have conquered all kingdoms and lands,

Isaiah 42:18

Hear, O ye deaf men, and sharpen your sights to see, O ye blind!

Isaiah 43:8

Bring forth that people which is blind, yet hath eyes; which is deaf yet hath ears.

Isaiah 44:18

Yet men neither consider nor understand; because their eyes are stopped that they cannot see, and their hearts, that they can not perceive.

Isaiah 44:20

The keeping of dust, and foolishness of heart hath turned them aside: so that none of them can have a free conscience to think, "Do not I err?"

Isaiah 45:20

Let them be gathered and come together, let them draw nigh hither, that are escaped of the people: Have they any understanding, that set up the stocks of their Idols, and praise unto a god, that cannot help them?

Isaiah 46:1-2

Bel is fallen, and Nebo is broken down: whose images were a burden for the beasts and cattle, to overladen them, and to make them weary.

Isaiah 46:6-7

Ye fools, no doubt, will take out silver and gold out of your purses, and weigh it, and hire a goldsmith to make a god of it, that men may kneel down and worship it.

Jeremiah 2:11

whether the Gentiles themselves deal so falsely and untruly with their gods - which yet are no gods indeed! But my people hath given over their high honour, for a thing that may not help them.

Jeremiah 2:27-28

For they say to a stock, 'Thou art my father,' and to a stone, 'Thou hast begotten me.' Yea, they have turned their back upon me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble, when they say, 'Stand up and help us!'

Jeremiah 10:3-8

Yea all the customs and laws of the Gentiles are nothing but vanity. They hew down a tree in the wood with the hands of the workman, and fashion it with the axe;

Jeremiah 10:14-15

His wisdom maketh all men fools. And confounded be all casters of images, for that they cast is but a vain thing, and hath no life.

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the gods of the Gentiles, that send rain or give the showers of heaven? Dost not thou it, O LORD our God, in whom we trust? Yea LORD, thou dost all these things."

Jeremiah 16:19-20

O LORD, my strength, my power, and refuge in time of trouble! The Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the world, and say, "Verily our fathers have cleaved unto lies, their Idols are but vain and unprofitable.

Daniel 5:23

but hast magnified thyself above the LORD of heaven, so that the vessels of his house were brought before thee: that thou, and thy lords, with thy queen and concubines, might drink wine thereout: and hast praised the Idols of silver and gold, copper and iron, of wood and stone. As for the God in whose hand consisteth thy breath and all thy ways: thou hast not loved him.

Daniel 11:38

In his place shall he worship the mighty Idols: and the God whom his fathers knew not, shall he honour with gold and silver, with precious stones and pleasant jewels.

Hosea 8:4-6

They have ordained kings, but not through me: they have made princes, and I must not know of it. Of their silver and gold have they made them images, to bring themselves to destruction.

Habakkuk 2:18-20

What help then will the Image do, whom the workman hath fashioned? Or the vain cast Image, wherein because the craftsmen putteth his trust, therefore maketh he dumb Idols?

Romans 1:22

When they counted themselves wise, they became fools

1 Corinthians 8:4

To speak of meat dedicated unto idols, we are sure that there is none idol in the world: and that there is none other God but one.

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest should shine unto them the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, which is the image of God.

Ephesians 4:18

blinded in their understanding, being strangers from the life which is in God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

Ephesians 5:8

Ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.