Isaiah 45:16

Easy-to-Read Version

Many people make false gods, but they will be disappointed. All of them will go away ashamed.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
All of them are put to shame, even humiliated;the makers of idols go in humiliation together.

Hebrew Names Version
They shall be put to shame, yes, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols.

King James Version
They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

English Standard Version
All of them are put to shame and confounded; the makers of idols go in confusion together.

New American Standard Bible
They will be put to shame and even humiliated, all of them; The manufacturers of idols will go away together in humiliation.

New Century Version
All the people who make idols will be put to great shame; they will go off together in disgrace.

Amplified Bible
They will be put to shame and also humiliated, all of them; They who make idols will go away together in humiliation.

World English Bible
They shall be put to shame, yes, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols.

Geneva Bible (1587)
All they shalbe ashamed and also confounded: they shall goe to confusion together, that are the makers of images.

Legacy Standard Bible
They will be put to shame and even dishonored, all of them;The craftsmen of idols will go away together in dishonor.

Berean Standard Bible
They will all be put to shame and humiliated; the makers of idols will go away together in disgrace.

Contemporary English Version
Anyone who makes idols will be confused and terribly disgraced.

Complete Jewish Bible
The idol-makers will be ashamed, disgraced, all of them; they will go dishonored together.

Darby Translation
They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them; they shall go away in confusion together, the makers of idols.

George Lamsa Translation
They who walk in confusion and make idols are all ashamed and confounded together;

Good News Translation
Those who make idols will all be ashamed; all of them will be disgraced.

Lexham English Bible
All of them are ashamed and indeed humiliated; the craftsmen of idols go together in insult.

Literal Translation
They shall be ashamed, and also are disgraced, all of them. Together they go into disgrace, carvers of images.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Confounded be ye, and put to dishonoure: go hence together with shame, all ye that be workmasters of erroure: (that is worshippers of Idols)

American Standard Version
They shall be put to shame, yea, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together that are makers of idols.

Bible in Basic English
All those who have gone against him will be put to shame; the makers of images will be made low.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
They shall be ashamed, yea, confounded, all of them; they shall go in confusion together that are makers of idols.

King James Version (1611)
They shall be ashamed, and also confounded all of them: they shall goe to confusion together that are makers of idoles.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Confounded are they all and put to dishonour, thei are gone hence together with shame, euen the makers of images.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
All that are opposed to him shall be ashamed and confounded, and shall walk in shame: ye isles, keep a feast to me.

English Revised Version
They shall be ashamed, yea, confounded, all of them: they shall go into confusion together that are makers of idols.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Alle makeris of errours ben schent, and weren aschamed; thei yeden togidere in to confusioun.

Update Bible Version
They shall be put to shame, yes, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together that are makers of idols.

Webster's Bible Translation
They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together [that are] makers of idols.

New English Translation
They will all be ashamed and embarrassed; those who fashion idols will all be humiliated.

New King James Version
They shall be ashamed And also disgraced, all of them; They shall go in confusion together, Who are makers of idols.

New Living Translation
All craftsmen who make idols will be humiliated. They will all be disgraced together.

New Life Bible
All of them will be put to shame and troubled. Those who make false gods will go away together in shame.

New Revised Standard
All of them are put to shame and confounded, the makers of idols go in confusion together.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They have turned pale and even been put to shame, all of them, - Together have they gone into disgrace, have the makers of images:

Douay-Rheims Bible
They are all confounded and ashamed: the forgers of errors are gone together into confusion.

Revised Standard Version
All of them are put to shame and confounded, the makers of idols go in confusion together.

Young's Literal Translation
They have been ashamed, And they have even blushed -- all of them, Together gone in confusion have those carving images.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They will be put to shame and even humiliated, all of them; The manufacturers of idols will go away together in humiliation.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ The Lord God is the Holy One of Israel. He created Israel, and he says, "My children, you asked me to show you a sign. You told me to show you what I have done. ¹² I made the earth, and I created the people on it. I used my own hands to make the skies. And I command all the armies in the sky. ¹³ I was right to give power to Cyrus, and I will make his work easy. He will rebuild my city, and he will set my people free without bribes or payment." The Lord All-Powerful said this. ¹⁴ The Lord says, "Egypt and Ethiopia are rich, but, Israel, you will get those riches. The tall people from Seba will be yours. They will walk behind you with chains around their necks. They will bow down before you and ask you to pray for them and say, ‘The true God really is with you, and there is no other God.'" ¹⁵ You are the God people cannot see. You are the God who saves Israel. ¹⁶ Many people make false gods, but they will be disappointed. All of them will go away ashamed. ¹⁷ But Israel will be saved by the Lord . That salvation will continue forever. Never again will Israel be shamed. ¹⁸ The Lord is God. He made the skies and the earth. He put the earth in its place. He did not want the earth to be empty when he made it. He created it to be lived on. "I am the Lord . There is no other God. ¹⁹ I have spoken openly, not in secret. I did not hide my words in a dark and secret place. I did not tell the people of Jacob to look for me in empty places. I am the Lord , and I speak the truth. I say only what is right.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 45:20, Isaiah 41:19, Isaiah 42:17, Isaiah 44:9, Isaiah 44:11, Psalms 97:7, Jeremiah 2:26, Jeremiah 2:27, Jeremiah 10:14, Jeremiah 10:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:4 - General Psalms 31:17 - wicked Isaiah 1:29 - ashamed Isaiah 30:3 - your confusion Isaiah 36:20 - that the Lord Isaiah 54:4 - Fear not Jeremiah 7:19 - the confusion Jeremiah 14:3 - they were Jeremiah 17:13 - all that Jeremiah 20:11 - everlasting Jeremiah 48:13 - ashamed Daniel 9:7 - unto us Hosea 10:6 - receive Habakkuk 2:18 - profiteth Romans 5:5 - hope 1 Peter 2:6 - shall

Cross-References

Genesis 16:6
But Abram said to Sarai, "She is your slave. You can do anything you want to her." So Sarai was cruel to Hagar, and Hagar ran away.

Genesis 20:15
And Abimelech said, "Look all around you. This is my land. You may live any place you want."

Genesis 34:18
This agreement made Hamor and Shechem very happy.

Genesis 41:33
So, Pharaoh, you should choose a wise, intelligent man and put him in charge of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 1:33
But he was always in front, going ahead to find a place for you to camp. At night, he was in the fire that showed you where to go. And during the day, he was in the cloud.

2 Samuel 3:36
All the people saw what happened, and they were pleased with what King David had done.

2 Chronicles 30:4
The agreement satisfied King Hezekiah and all the assembly.

Esther 1:21
The king and his important officials were happy with this advice, so King Xerxes did as Memucan suggested.

Esther 2:4
Then let the one who is pleasing to the king become the new queen in Vashti's place." The king liked this suggestion, so he accepted it.

Esther 5:14
Then Haman's wife Zeresh and all his friends had a suggestion. They said, "Tell someone to build a post to hang him on. Make it 75 feet tall. In the morning ask the king to hang Mordecai on it. Then go to the party with the king and you can be happy." Haman liked this suggestion, so he ordered someone to build the hanging post.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them,.... This refers not to any persons spoken of before; not to Israel or the church, or converts among the Gentiles that came to her; but to those that follow, of whom the same is said in other words:

they shall go to confusion together, that are makers of idols; the Targum is,

"worshippers of images;''

both may be designed: this refers to the first times of the Gospel, and its coming into the Gentile world, and its success there; when the oracles of the Heathens were struck dumb; idols and idol temples were forsaken; and Paganism was abolished in the Roman empire; and when the gods they served could not help them, but they fled to the rocks to hide them from the wrath of God and the Lamb, Revelation 6:15.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They shall be ashamed and confounded - That is, they shall find all their hopes fail, and shall be suffused with shame that they were ever so senseless as to trust in blocks of wood and stone (see the notes at Isaiah 1:29; Isaiah 20:5; Isaiah 30:5; Isaiah 43:17).

They shall go to confusion - They shall all retire in shame and disgrace. That is, when they have gone to supplicate their idols, they shall find them unable to render them any aid, and they shall retire with shame.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 45:16. They shall be ashamed - "They are ashamed"] The reader cannot but observe the sudden transition from the solemn adoration of the secret and mysterious nature of God's counsels in regard to his people, to the spirited denunciation of the confusion of idolaters, and the final destruction of idolatry; contrasted with the salvation of Israel, not from temporal captivity, but the eternal salvation by the Messiah, strongly marked by the repetition and augmentation of the phrase, to the ages of eternity. But there is not only a sudden change in the sentiment, the change is equally observable in the construction of the sentences; which from the usual short measure, runs out at once into two distichs of the longer sort of verse. See Prelim. Dissert. p. 66, &c. There is another instance of the same kind and very like to this, of a sudden transition in regard both to the sentiment and construction in Isaiah 42:17.

"His adversaries"] This line, to the great diminution of the beauty of the distich, is imperfect in the present text: the subject of the proposition is not particularly expressed, as it is in the line following. The version of the Septuagint happily supplies the word that is lost: οἱ αντικειμενοι αυτῳ, "his adversaries," the original word was צריו tsaraiv. - L.