³ Our God is in heaven. He does whatever he pleases. ⁴ Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.
⁵ They have mouths, but they cannot speak. They have eyes, but they cannot see.

Phrases

Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:28

You will serve gods that are the work of men's hands. Made of wood and stone. They cannot see, hear, eat or smell.

Jeremiah 10:3-5

The people's customs are erroneous and empty. It is wood cut from the forest. It is the work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

Acts 19:26

You see and hear that Paul, in Ephesus and throughout all Asia, has persuaded and turned away many people. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all.

2 Kings 19:18

They threw the gods from these countries into fires because these gods are not real gods. They are only wooden and stone statues made by human hands. So the Assyrians have destroyed them.

Psalm 97:7

All those who serve graven images are put to shame. Those who boast themselves in idols and all God-like ones bow down before Him.

Psalm 135:15-18

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of man's hands.

Isaiah 37:19

They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them. But they were not gods! They were only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.

Isaiah 40:19-20

As for an idol, a craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.

Isaiah 42:17

Those who trust in idols and call images their gods will be humiliated and disgraced.

Isaiah 44:10

Who shapes a god and casts a useless and good for nothing idol.

Isaiah 44:20

They eat ashes because they are deceived. Their own misguided minds lead them astray. They cannot rescue themselves or ask themselves: Is what I hold in my right hand a false god?

Isaiah 46:1-2

Bel bows down and Nebo stoops low. Their idols are borne by beasts of burden. The images that are carried about are burdensome. They are a burden for the weary.

Isaiah 46:6-7

Some pour out gold from their bags and weigh out silver on the scales. They hire a goldsmith to make it into a god. They bow down and worship it.

Hosea 8:6

Samaria's calf-shaped idol was made in Israel. Skilled workers made it. It is not God. It will be smashed to pieces!

Habakkuk 2:18-20

What is an idol worth after the carver is done? It is merely a false god. Why trust a speechless image made by human hands from wood or metal?

The city recorder quieted the crowd. He said: You men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple-keeper of the great Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

1 Corinthians 10:19-20

What do I mean? That the idol is anything, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything?