Isaiah 40:19

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Isaiah 40:19

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?

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KJV

King James Version

The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

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WEB

World English Bible

A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.

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ASV

American Standard Version

The image, a workman hath cast [it], and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth [for it] silver chains.

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Isaiah 40

¹⁷ All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.

¹⁸ To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?

¹⁹ To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?

²⁰ One lacking such an offering chooses wood that will not rot. He seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple.

²¹ Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the foundation of the earth?

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