What does an image profit, for its maker has carved it; a molten image, and a teacher of lies? For does the maker trust in his work on it, to make dumb idols?

Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

For I do not know how to eulogize; else after a little my Maker would take me away.

But none says, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;

I will bring my knowledge from afar, and I will credit righteousness to my Maker.

He is the first of the ways of God; his Maker brings near his sword.

The Portion of Jacob is not like them; for He is the Maker of all things; and Israel is the rod of His inheritance. Jehovah of Hosts is His name.

So says Jehovah the Maker of it, Jehovah who formed it in order to establish it; Jehovah is His name:

For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples. And Judah has multiplied cities. But I will send a fire on his cities, and it shall burn up her palaces.

Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Jehovah our maker.

Let Israel rejoice in his Maker; let the sons of Zion be joyful in their King.

The rich and poor meet together; Jehovah is the maker of them all.

He who presses the poor curses his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy upon the poor.

Whoever scorns the poor reviles his Maker; he who is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

And the strong shall be like tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall put them out.

When its branches are dried up, they shall be broken off; the women come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore His Maker will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will not favor them.

In that day a man shall look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool; but you have not looked to its Maker, nor saw Him who formed it long ago.

And you forget Jehovah your Maker, who has stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. And you dread continually, every day, because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy. And where is the fury of the oppressor?

For your Maker is your husband; Jehovah of Hosts is His name; and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; the God of the whole earth shall He be called.

But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob did not send with his brothers. For he said, Lest perhaps mischief happen to him.

And he said, My son shall not go down with you. For his brother is dead, and he is left alone. And if mischief should happen to him by the way you go, then you shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

And if you take this one also from me, and mischief befall him, you shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Jehovah has returned on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. And Jehovah has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son. And behold, you are taken in your mischief, because you are a man of blood!

And he was a foe to Israel all the days of Solomon, besides the mischief which Hadad did. And he hated Israel and reigned over Syria.

And the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, Please mark and see how this one seeks mischief. For he sent to me for my wives and for my sons, and for my silver and for my gold. And I did not keep them back from him.

And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord become hot. You know the people, that they are set on mischief.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth evil, and their belly prepares deceit.

Behold, he labors in pain with iniquity, and he has conceived mischief, and has brought forth falsehood.

His mischief shall return on his own head, and his violence shall come on his own crown.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue are mischief and vanity.

You have seen it; for You behold mischief and vexation, to repay it with Your hand. The poor commits himself to You; You are the Helper of the fatherless.

How long will you imagine mischief against a man? You will shatter him, all of you; you shall be like a bowing wall and a tottering fence.

None calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth; they trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and bring out iniquity.

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with You, which frames mischief by a law?

He who carefully seeks good gets favor; but he who seeks mischief, it shall come to him.

No evil shall happen to the just, but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

For they do not sleep, except when they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.

perversity is in his heart; he is always planning mischief; he causes fighting.

For their heart studies ruin, and their lips talk of mischief.

A wicked messenger falls into mischief, but a faithful ambassador is health.

He who has a perverse heart finds no good, and he who has a crooked tongue falls into mischief.

Blessed is the man dreading God, but he who hardens his heart shall fall into mischief.

But evil shall come on you; you shall not know its origin. And mischief shall fall on you; you shall not be able to put it off. And desolation shall come on you suddenly, you shall not know.

Gilead is a city of trouble-makers, slippery with blood marks.

They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them; they who are makers of idols shall go into disgrace together.