The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
Parallel translations
- KJV The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
- BSB The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
- NKJV The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands.
- NASB The idols of the nations are nothing but silver and gold, The work of human hands.
- NLT The idols of the nations are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands.
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Cross-references · 9
- Ps 115:4–8Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
- Jer 10:3–11For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the ax.
- Hab 2:18–19“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
- Isa 37:19and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
- Acts 17:29Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
- Isa 46:6–7Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down — yes, they worship.
- Isa 44:9–20Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.
- Deut 4:28There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
- Isa 40:19–20A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
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