Isaiah 45:16

Complete Jewish Bible

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

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.

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.

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 Thus says Adonai , the Holy One of Isra'el, his Maker: "You ask for signs concerning my children? You give orders concerning the work of my hands? ¹² I am the one who made the earth! I created human beings on it! I — my hands — stretched out the heavens, and directed all their number. ¹³ I am stirring up Koresh to righteousness, I am smoothing out all his paths. He will rebuild my city; and he will free my exiles, taking neither ransom nor bribe," says Adonai -Tzva'ot. ¹⁴ Here is what Adonai says: "The earnings of Egypt, the commerce of Ethiopia, and men of stature from S'va will come over to you and become yours; they will come in chains and follow you. They will prostrate themselves before you; they will pray to you: ‘Surely God is with you; there is no other, other gods are nothing.'" ¹⁵ Truly, you are a God who hides himself, God of Isra'el, Savior! ¹⁶ The idol-makers will be ashamed, disgraced, all of them; they will go dishonored together. ¹⁷ But Isra'el, saved by Adonai with an everlasting salvation, you will never, ever, be ashamed or disgraced. ¹⁸ For thus says Adonai , who created the heavens, God, who shaped and made the earth, who established and created it not to be chaos, but formed it to be lived in: "I am Adonai ; there is no other. ¹⁹ I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Ya‘akov, ‘It is in vain that you will seek me.' I, Adonai , speak rightly; I say what is true.

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
However, Avram answered Sarai, "Look, she's your slave-girl. Deal with her as you think fit." Then Sarai treated her so harshly that she ran away from her.

Genesis 20:15
Then Avimelekh said, "Look, my country lies before you; live where you like."

Genesis 34:18
What they said seemed fair to Hamor and Sh'khem the son of Hamor,

Genesis 41:33
"Therefore, Pharaoh should look for a man both discreet and wise to put in charge of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 1:33
even though he went ahead of you, seeking out places for you to pitch your tents and showing you which way to go, by fire at night and by a cloud during the day.'

2 Samuel 3:36
All the people took note of this, and it pleased them; whatever the king did pleased all the people.

2 Chronicles 30:4
The idea had seemed right to the king and to the whole community;

Esther 1:21
This advice pleased the king and the officials, so the king did what Memukhan had suggested —

Esther 2:4
Then, the girl who seems best to the king should become queen instead of Vashti." This proposal pleased the king, so he acted accordingly.

Esther 5:14
At this Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, "Have a gallows seventy-five feet high constructed, and in the morning speak to the king about having Mordekhai hanged on it. Then go in, and enjoy yourself with the king at the banquet." Haman liked the idea, so he had a gallows 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.