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King James Version

Isaiah 44:10

Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Carving;   Idol;   Idolatry;   Vanity;   Thompson Chain Reference - False;   Idol;   Idolatry;   Ignorance;   Self, Ignorance of;   Worship, False;   Worship, True and False;   The Topic Concordance - Idolatry;   Knowledge;   Profit;   Understanding;   Worship;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Idolatry;   Vanity;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Idol, idolatry;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Idol, Idolatry;   Religion;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Idol;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Worshipper;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exile;   God;   Idol;   Isaiah;   Life;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Election;   Micah, Book of;   Righteousness;   Servant of the Lord;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Nebuchadnezzar;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Form;   Idolatry;   Jeremy, the Epistle of;   Nothing;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jeremiah, Epistle of;   Judaism;   Names of God;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Who has formed a god or cast a graven image to no profit?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no profit?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Who dare then make a god, or fashion an image that is profitable for nothing?
Darby Translation
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
New King James Version
Who would form a god or mold an image That profits him nothing?
Literal Translation
Who has formed a god, or poured out an image to no profit?
Easy-to-Read Version
Who made these false gods? Who covered these useless statues?
World English Bible
Who has 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?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Who shulde now make a god, or fashio an Idol, that is profitable for nothinge?
Amplified Bible
Who has made a god or cast an idol which is profitable for nothing?
American Standard Version
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.
Update Bible Version
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?
New Century Version
Who made these gods? Who made these useless idols?
New English Translation
Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?
Contemporary English Version
Why make an idol or an image that can't do a thing?
Complete Jewish Bible
Who would fashion a god or cast an image that profits no one anything?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Who hath made a god, or molten an image, that is profitable for nothing?
George Lamsa Translation
Therefore let them be ashamed, those who make gods or graven and molten images that are profitable for nothing.
Hebrew Names Version
Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
New Living Translation
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?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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?
Berean Standard Bible
Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?
New Revised Standard
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!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Who hath formed a god, and made a graven thing that is profitable for nothing?
Lexham English Bible
Who would form a god and cast an image of which he cannot profit?
English Standard Version
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?
Good News Translation
It does no good to make a metal image to worship as a god!
Christian Standard Bible®
Who makes a god or casts a metal image for no profit?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Who fourmyde a god, and yetide an ymage, not profitable to ony thing?
Revised Standard Version
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?

Contextual Overview

9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. 10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? 11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together. 12 The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint. 13 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house. 14 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it. 15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto. 16 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire: 17 And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god. 18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot 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
And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
Genesis 44:24
And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Genesis 44:25
And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.
Genesis 44:33
Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
Exodus 22:3
If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have 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.


 
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