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Green's Literal Translation

Isaiah 45:16

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Idolatry;   Isaiah;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ashamed, Wicked;   Honour-Dishonour;   Righteous-Wicked;   Shame;   Wicked, the;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Creation;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Idol;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Election;   Micah, Book of;   Righteousness;   Servant of the Lord;   Shame;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Medes;   Persia;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ashamed;   Make;  

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.
Easy-to-Read Version
Many people make false gods, but they will be disappointed. All of them will go away ashamed.
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.
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 So says Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and the One who formed him, Do you ask Me of the things to come? Do you give command to Me about My sons, and about the work of My hands? 12 I have made the earth, and created man on it. I stretched out the heavens with My hands; and I have set all their host in order. 13 I raised him up in righteousness, and have made straight all his ways. He shall build My city, and he will release My captives; not for price, nor for reward, says Jehovah of Hosts. 14 So says Jehovah, The labor of Egypt, and the goods of Ethiopia, and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come to you; and they shall be yours. They shall come after you; they shall cross in chains; and they shall bow to you; they shall pleadto you. Surely God is in you, and there is none else, no other God. 15 Truly, You are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, the Savior. 16 They shall be ashamed, and also are disgraced, all of them. Together they go into disgrace, carvers of images. 17 Israel is saved in Jehovah with everlasting salvation. You shall not be ashamed nor disgraced to the forevers of eternity. 18 For so says Jehovah, Creator of the heavens; He is God, forming the earth and making it; He makes it stand, not creating it empty, but forming it to be lived in. I am Jehovah, and there is none else. 19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth. I did not say to Jacob's seed, Seek Me in vain. I Jehovah speak righteousness, declaring right things.

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, See, your slave girl is in your hand. Do to her what is good in your eyes. And Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from before her.
Genesis 20:15
Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before you. Live where it pleases you.
Genesis 34:18
And their words pleased Hamor and the son of Hamor, Shechem.
Genesis 41:33
And now let Pharaoh look for a man who is intelligent and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 1:33
who went before you in the way to seek out a place for your camping, in fire by night, to show you the way in which you should go, and in a cloud by the day.
2 Samuel 3:36
And all the people took notice, and it was good in their eyes. As to all the king did, it was good in the eyes of all the people.
2 Chronicles 30:4
And the thing was right in the eyes of the king, and in the eyes of the congregation.
Esther 1:21
And the saying pleased the king, and the rulers. And the king did according to the word of Memucan.
Esther 2:4
And let the young woman who pleases the king rule instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king, and he did so.
Esther 5:14
And his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, Make a wooden gallows fifty cubits high, and tomorrow speak to the king and let them hang Mordecai on it; and go rejoicing in with theking to the banquet. And the thing was good inHaman's eyes. And he caused the wooden gallows to be made.

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.


 
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