Ésaïe 44:15

Louis Segond

Ces arbres servent à l'homme pour brûler, Il en prend et il se chauffe. Il y met aussi le feu pour cuire du pain; Et il en fait également un dieu, qu'il adore, Il en fait une idole, devant laquelle il se prosterne.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Puis il servira � l'homme pour br�ler; car il en prend, et s'en chauffe; il en fait, dis-je, du feu, et en cuit du pain; il en fait aussi un Dieu, et se prosterne [devant lui]; il en fait une image taill�e, et l'adore.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Ce bois servira � l'homme pour br�ler; il en prend, et il se chauffe. Il en fait aussi du feu pour cuire du pain: il en fait aussi un dieu, et se prosterne devant lui; il en fait une idole, et il l'adore.

Darby's French Translation
Et un homme l'aura pour en faire du feu, et il en prend et s'en chauffe; il l'allume aussi, et cuit du pain; il en fait aussi un dieu, et l'adore; il en fait une image taill�e, et se prosterne devant elle.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he maketh a god: Isaiah 44:10, Isaiah 45:20, Judges 2:19, 2 Chronicles 25:14, Revelation 9:20

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:5 - bow down 1 Kings 18:27 - Elijah Isaiah 2:8 - worship Isaiah 17:8 - the work Jeremiah 1:16 - worshipped

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then shall it be for a man to burn,.... And which indeed is the proper use of it, but not all that this man puts it to; only the boughs, and what he cuts off as useless to his purpose, and the chips he makes, which he commits to the fire:

for he will take thereof, and warm himself; with some part of it he makes a fire in his parlour, and warms himself when it is cold weather:

yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; he heats his oven with another part of it, and bakes the bread he has made for himself and family to live on, and which is putting it to a good use:

yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh a graven image, and falleth down thereto; the other part of the tree, and which is the better part, he makes an image of, and carves it, and calls it a god; and not only so, but when he has done, falls down and worships it; than which there cannot be a greater instance of stupidity and folly.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then shall it be for a man to burn - It will afford materials for a fire. The design of this verse and the following is, to ridicule the idea of a man’s using parts of the same tree to make a fire to cook his victuals, to warm himself, and to shape a god. Nothing could be more stupid than the conduct here referred to, and yet it is common all over the pagan world. It shows the utter debasement of the race, that they thus of the same tree make a fire, cook their food, and construct their gods.