the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Isaiah 44:10
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Who makes a god or casts a metal imagethat benefits no one?
Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Who fashions a god or casts an idol that is profitable for nothing?
Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no benefit?
Who made these gods? Who made these useless idols?
Who has made a god or cast an idol which is profitable for nothing?
Who has fashioned 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?
Who has formed a god or cast a graven image to no profit?
Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?
Why make an idol or an image that can't do a thing?
Who would fashion a god or cast an image that profits no one anything?
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Who made these false gods? Who covered these useless statues?
Therefore let them be ashamed, those who make gods or graven and molten images that are profitable for nothing.
It does no good to make a metal image to worship as a god!
Who would form a god and cast an image of which he cannot profit?
Who has formed a god, or poured out an image to no profit?
Who shulde now make a god, or fashio an Idol, that is profitable for nothinge?
Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.
Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
Who hath formed a God, or moulten a grauen image that is profitable for nothing?
Who dare then make a god, or fashion an image that is profitable for nothing?
that form a god, and all that grave worthless things:
Who hath fashioned a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Who fourmyde a god, and yetide an ymage, not profitable to ony thing?
Who hath formed a god, or cast a graven image [that] is profitable for nothing?
Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?
Who would form a god or mold an image That profits him nothing?
Who but a fool would make his own god— an idol that cannot help him one bit?
Who has made a false god or an object of worship that is of no worth?
Who would fashion a god or cast an image that can do no good?
Who hath fashioned a GOD, Oran image, hath molten? It cannot profit!
Who hath formed a god, and made a graven thing that is profitable for nothing?
Who fashions a god or casts an image, that is profitable for nothing?
Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out -- not profitable?
Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no profit?
Contextual Overview
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
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And he said, Far be it from me that I should do so: the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my slave but as for you, you get up in peace to your father.
And it came to pass when we came up to your slave my father, we told him the words of my lord.
And our father said, Go again, buy us a little food.
Now therefore, let your slave, I pray you, abide instead of the lad a slave to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brothers.
If the sun is risen on him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him; he shall make restitution: if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
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.
