Isaiah 40:19 Cross References

Isaiah 40:19

19: Can he be compared to an idol formed in a mold, overlaid with gold, and decorated with silver chains?

Jeremiah 10:9

  1. They bring beaten sheets of silver from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz, and they give these materials to skillful craftsmen who make their idols. Then they dress these gods in royal purple robes made by expert tailors.

Psalms 115:4

  1. Their idols are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands.
  2. They cannot talk, though they have mouths, or see, though they have eyes!
  3. They cannot hear with their ears, or smell with their noses,
  4. or feel with their hands, or walk with their feet, or utter sounds with their throats!
  5. And those who make them are just like them, as are all who trust in them.

Habakkuk 2:18

  1. "What have you gained by worshiping all your man-made idols? How foolish to trust in something made by your own hands! What fools you are to believe such lies!
  2. How terrible it will be for you who beg lifeless wooden idols to save you. You ask speechless stone images to tell you what to do. Can an idol speak for God? They may be overlaid with gold and silver, but they are lifeless inside.

Isaiah 46:6

  1. Some people pour out their silver and gold and hire a craftsman to make a god from it. Then they bow down and worship it!
  2. They carry it around on their shoulders, and when they set it down, it stays there. It cannot even move! And when someone prays to it, there is no answer. It has no power to get anyone out of trouble.

Hosea 8:6

  1. This calf you worship was crafted by your own hands! It is not God! Therefore, it must be smashed to bits.

Psalms 135:15

  1. Their idols are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands.

Isaiah 44:10

  1. Who but a fool would make his own god--an idol that cannot help him one bit!
  2. All who worship idols will stand before the LORD in shame, along with all these craftsmen--mere humans--who claim they can make a god. Together they will stand in terror and shame.
  3. The blacksmith stands at his forge to make a sharp tool, pounding and shaping it with all his might. His work makes him hungry and thirsty, weak and faint.

Psalms 135:18

  1. And those who make them are just like them, as are all who trust in them.

Isaiah 2:20

  1. They will abandon their gold and silver idols to the moles and bats.

Isaiah 37:18

  1. "It is true, LORD, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all these nations, just as the message says.
  2. And they have thrown the gods of these nations into the fire and burned them. But of course the Assyrians could destroy them! They were not gods at all--only idols of wood and stone shaped by human hands.

Judges 17:4

  1. So his mother took two hundred of the silver coins to a silversmith, who made them into an image and an idol. And these were placed in Micah's house.

Jeremiah 10:3

  1. Their ways are futile and foolish. They cut down a tree and carve an idol.
  2. They decorate it with gold and silver and then fasten it securely with hammer and nails so it won't fall over.
  3. There stands their god like a helpless scarecrow in a garden! It cannot speak, and it needs to be carried because it cannot walk. Do not be afraid of such gods, for they can neither harm you nor do you any good."

Exodus 32:2

  1. So Aaron said, "Tell your wives and sons and daughters to take off their gold earrings, and then bring them to me."
  2. All the people obeyed Aaron and brought him their gold earrings.
  3. Then Aaron took the gold, melted it down, and molded and tooled it into the shape of a calf. The people exclaimed, "O Israel, these are the gods who brought you out of Egypt!"

Isaiah 41:6

  1. They encourage one another with the words, "Be strong!"
  2. The craftsmen rush to make new idols. The carver hurries the goldsmith, and the molder helps at the anvil. "Good," they say. "It's coming along fine." Carefully they join the parts together, then fasten the thing in place so it won't fall over.
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