OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 19

Isaiah 40:19

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A workman has cast an image,

and the goldsmith overlays it with gold,

and casts silver chains for it.

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Isaiah 40:19 in context

Isaiah 40:16–22

16

Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,

nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.

17

All the nations are like nothing before him.

They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

18

To whom then will you liken God?

Or what likeness will you compare to him?

19
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A workman has cast an image,

and the goldsmith overlays it with gold,

and casts silver chains for it.

20

He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot.

He seeks a skillful workman to set up a carved image for him that will not be moved.

21

Haven’t you known?

Haven’t you heard?

Haven’t you been told from the beginning?

Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?

22

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,

and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;

who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,

and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,

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