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Sunday, July 13th, 2025
the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Complete Jewish Bible
Isaiah 44:10
Who would fashion a god or cast an image that profits no one anything?
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Christian Standard Bible®
Who makes a god or casts a metal imagethat benefits no one?
Who makes a god or casts a metal imagethat benefits no one?
Hebrew Names Version
Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
King James Version
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
English Standard Version
Who fashions a god or casts an idol that is profitable for nothing?
Who fashions a god or casts an idol that is profitable for nothing?
New American Standard Bible
Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no benefit?
Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no benefit?
New Century Version
Who made these gods? Who made these useless idols?
Who made these gods? Who made these useless idols?
Amplified Bible
Who has made a god or cast an idol which is profitable for nothing?
Who has made a god or cast an idol which is profitable for nothing?
World English Bible
Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Who hath made a god, or molten an image, that is profitable for nothing?
Who hath made a god, or molten an image, that is profitable for nothing?
Legacy Standard Bible
Who has formed a god or cast a graven image to no profit?
Who has formed a god or cast a graven image to no profit?
Berean Standard Bible
Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?
Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?
Contemporary English Version
Why make an idol or an image that can't do a thing?
Why make an idol or an image that can't do a thing?
Darby Translation
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Easy-to-Read Version
Who made these false gods? Who covered these useless statues?
Who made these false gods? Who covered these useless statues?
George Lamsa Translation
Therefore let them be ashamed, those who make gods or graven and molten images that are profitable for nothing.
Therefore let them be ashamed, those who make gods or graven and molten images that are profitable for nothing.
Good News Translation
It does no good to make a metal image to worship as a god!
It does no good to make a metal image to worship as a god!
Lexham English Bible
Who would form a god and cast an image of which he cannot profit?
Who would form a god and cast an image of which he cannot profit?
Literal Translation
Who has formed a god, or poured out an image to no profit?
Who has formed a god, or poured out an image to no profit?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Who shulde now make a god, or fashio an Idol, that is profitable for nothinge?
Who shulde now make a god, or fashio an Idol, that is profitable for nothinge?
American Standard Version
Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
Bible in Basic English
Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.
Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
King James Version (1611)
Who hath formed a God, or moulten a grauen image that is profitable for nothing?
Who hath formed a God, or moulten a grauen image that is profitable for nothing?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Who dare then make a god, or fashion an image that is profitable for nothing?
Who dare then make a god, or fashion an image that is profitable for nothing?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
that form a god, and all that grave worthless things:
that form a god, and all that grave worthless things:
English Revised Version
Who hath fashioned a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Who hath fashioned a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Who fourmyde a god, and yetide an ymage, not profitable to ony thing?
Who fourmyde a god, and yetide an ymage, not profitable to ony thing?
Update Bible Version
Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
Webster's Bible Translation
Who hath formed a god, or cast a graven image [that] is profitable for nothing?
Who hath formed a god, or cast a graven image [that] is profitable for nothing?
New English Translation
Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?
Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?
New King James Version
Who would form a god or mold an image That profits him nothing?
Who would form a god or mold an image That profits him nothing?
New Living Translation
Who but a fool would make his own god— an idol that cannot help him one bit?
Who but a fool would make his own god— an idol that cannot help him one bit?
New Life Bible
Who has made a false god or an object of worship that is of no worth?
Who has made a false god or an object of worship that is of no worth?
New Revised Standard
Who would fashion a god or cast an image that can do no good?
Who would fashion a god or cast an image that can do no good?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Who hath fashioned a GOD, Oran image, hath molten? It cannot profit!
Who hath fashioned a GOD, Oran image, hath molten? It cannot profit!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Who hath formed a god, and made a graven thing that is profitable for nothing?
Who hath formed a god, and made a graven thing that is profitable for nothing?
Revised Standard Version
Who fashions a god or casts an image, that is profitable for nothing?
Who fashions a god or casts an image, that is profitable for nothing?
Young's Literal Translation
Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out -- not profitable?
Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out -- not profitable?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no profit?
Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no profit?
Contextual Overview
9 All idol-makers amount to nothing; their precious productions profit no one; and their witnesses, to their own shame, neither see nor understand. 10 Who would fashion a god or cast an image that profits no one anything? 11 All involved will be ashamed, but more than anyone else, the people who made them. Let them all be assembled, let them stand up; let them fear and be shamed together. 12 A blacksmith makes a tool over burning coals; with his strong arm he shapes it with hammers. But when he gets hungry, his strength fails; if he doesn't drink water, he grows tired. 13 A carpenter takes his measurements, sketches the shape with a stylus, planes the wood, checks it with calipers, and carves it into the shape of a man; and, since it is honored like a man, of course it has to live in a house. 14 He goes to chop down cedars; he takes an evergreen and an oak; he especially tends one tree in the forest, plants a pine for the rain to nourish. 15 In time, when it's ready for use as fuel, he takes some of it to keep himself warm and burns some more to bake bread. Then he makes a god and worships it, carves it into an idol and falls down before it. 16 So half of it he burns in the fire; with that half he roasts meat and eats his fill; he warms himself; says, "It feels so good, getting warm while watching the flames!" 17 With the rest of the log he fashions a god, a carved image, then falls down before it; he worships it and prays to it. "Save me," he says, "for you are my god!" 18 Such people know nothing, understand nothing. Their eyes are sealed shut, so that they can't see; their hearts too, so they can't understand.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
1 Kings 12:28, Jeremiah 10:5, Daniel 3:1, Daniel 3:14, Habakkuk 2:18, Acts 19:26, 1 Corinthians 8:4
Reciprocal: Exodus 32:4 - fashioned Deuteronomy 27:15 - maketh 1 Samuel 12:21 - cannot profit 2 Kings 17:16 - molten images 2 Chronicles 25:15 - which could Isaiah 37:19 - no gods Isaiah 40:19 - General Isaiah 41:24 - ye are Isaiah 44:15 - he maketh a god Jeremiah 16:19 - wherein Zechariah 11:17 - idol Acts 14:15 - from
Cross-References
Genesis 44:17
But he replied, "Heaven forbid that I should act in such a way. The man in whose possession the goblet was found will be my slave; but as for you, go in peace to your father." Haftarah Mikketz: M'lakhim Alef (1 Kings) 3:15–4:1 B'rit Hadashah suggested reading for Parashah Mikketz: Acts 7:9–16 (specifically vv. 11–12) Then Y'hudah approached Yosef and said, "Please, my lord! Let your servant say something to you privately; and don't be angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself. My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father? or a brother?' We answered my lord, ‘We have a father who is an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one whose brother is dead; so that of his mother's children he alone is left; and his father loves him.' But you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, so that I can see him.' We answered my lord, ‘The boy can't leave his father; if he were to leave his father, his father would die.' You said to your servants, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.' We went up to your servant my father and told him what my lord had said; but when our father said, ‘Go again, and buy us some food,' we answered, ‘We can't go down. Only if our youngest brother is with us will we go down, because we can't see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.' Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons: the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he has been torn to pieces," and I haven't seen him since. Now if you take this one away from me too, and something happens to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sh'ol with grief.' So now if I go to your servant my father, and the boy isn't with us — seeing how his heart is bound up with the boy's heart — (ii) when he sees that the boy isn't with us, he will die; and your servants will bring the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sh'ol with grief. For your servant himself guaranteed his safety; I said, ‘If I fail to bring him to you, then I will bear the blame before my father forever.' Therefore, I beg you, let your servant stay as a slave to my lord instead of the boy, and let the boy go up with his brothers. For how can I go up to my father if the boy isn't with me? I couldn't bear to see my father so overwhelmed by anguish."
But he replied, "Heaven forbid that I should act in such a way. The man in whose possession the goblet was found will be my slave; but as for you, go in peace to your father." Haftarah Mikketz: M'lakhim Alef (1 Kings) 3:15–4:1 B'rit Hadashah suggested reading for Parashah Mikketz: Acts 7:9–16 (specifically vv. 11–12) Then Y'hudah approached Yosef and said, "Please, my lord! Let your servant say something to you privately; and don't be angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself. My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father? or a brother?' We answered my lord, ‘We have a father who is an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one whose brother is dead; so that of his mother's children he alone is left; and his father loves him.' But you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, so that I can see him.' We answered my lord, ‘The boy can't leave his father; if he were to leave his father, his father would die.' You said to your servants, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.' We went up to your servant my father and told him what my lord had said; but when our father said, ‘Go again, and buy us some food,' we answered, ‘We can't go down. Only if our youngest brother is with us will we go down, because we can't see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.' Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons: the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he has been torn to pieces," and I haven't seen him since. Now if you take this one away from me too, and something happens to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sh'ol with grief.' So now if I go to your servant my father, and the boy isn't with us — seeing how his heart is bound up with the boy's heart — (ii) when he sees that the boy isn't with us, he will die; and your servants will bring the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sh'ol with grief. For your servant himself guaranteed his safety; I said, ‘If I fail to bring him to you, then I will bear the blame before my father forever.' Therefore, I beg you, let your servant stay as a slave to my lord instead of the boy, and let the boy go up with his brothers. For how can I go up to my father if the boy isn't with me? I couldn't bear to see my father so overwhelmed by anguish."
Genesis 44:24
We went up to your servant my father and told him what my lord had said;
We went up to your servant my father and told him what my lord had said;
Genesis 44:25
but when our father said, ‘Go again, and buy us some food,'
but when our father said, ‘Go again, and buy us some food,'
Genesis 44:33
Therefore, I beg you, let your servant stay as a slave to my lord instead of the boy, and let the boy go up with his brothers.
Therefore, I beg you, let your servant stay as a slave to my lord instead of the boy, and let the boy go up with his brothers.
Exodus 22:3
If what he stole is found alive in his possession, he is to pay double, no matter whether it is an ox, a donkey or a sheep.
If what he stole is found alive in his possession, he is to pay double, no matter whether it is an ox, a donkey or a sheep.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Who hath formed a god,.... Who ever made one? was such a thing ever known? or can that be a god which is made or formed? who so mad, foolish and sottish, as to imagine he has made a god? or is it possible for a creature to be the maker of a god? or any so stupid as to fancy he had made one? yet such there were, so void of understanding and reason, and even common sense: "or molten a graven image": first melted it, and cast it into a mould, and then graved and polished it, and called it a god?
that is profitable for nothing? or seeing it "is profitable for nothing", as a god; cannot see the persons, nor hear the prayers, nor relieve the distresses of those that worship it; and therefore it must be great folly indeed to make an image for such a purpose, which answers no end.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Who hath formed a god - The Septuagint reads this verse in connection with the close of the previous verse, ‘But they shall be ashamed who make a god, and all who sculpture unprofitable things.’ This interpretation also, Lowth, by a change in the Hebrew text on the authority of a manuscript in the Bodleian library, has adopted. This change is made by reading כי kı̂y instead of מי mı̂y in the beginning of the verse. But the authority of the change, being that of a single MS. and the Septuagint, is not sufficient. Nor is it necessary. The question is designed to be ironical and sarcastic: ‘Who is there,’ says the prophet, ‘that has done this? Who are they that are engaged in this stupid work? Do they give marks of a sound mind? What is, and must be the character of a man that bas formed a god, and that has made an unprofitable graven image?
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Isaiah 44:10. Isaiah 44:9.
