Isaiah 44:10
What does Isaiah 44:10 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 44:10 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
KJV
King James Version · 1611Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out--not profitable?
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Who hath formed a god, and made a graven thing that is profitable for nothing?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Who hath formed agod, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Context
v.9They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses see not, nor know: that they may be put to shame.
v.10This passage
v.11Behold, all his fellows shall be put to shame; and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; they shall fear, they shall be put to shame together.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Daniel 3:14
Nebuchadnezzar answered and said unto them, Is it of purpose, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, that ye serve not my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
- Isaiah 41:29
Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.
- Daniel 3:1
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
- Acts 19:26
And ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands:
- Jeremiah 10:5
They are like a palm-tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.
- 1 Corinthians 8:4
Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one.
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