Isaiah 37:19
And 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.
Isaiah 37:19 in other translations
| BSB | They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands. |
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| WEB | and 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. |
| ASV | and 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. |
| YLT | so as to put their gods into fire--for they are no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone--and they destroy them. |
| DARBY | and have cast theirgods into the fire; for they were nogods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; and they have destroyed them. |
| BBE | And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction. |
| Webster | And 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. |
What does Isaiah 37:19 mean?
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Isaiah 37:19 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 37:19
- Psalms 115:4-8
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. …
- Isaiah 40:19-21
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
- Isaiah 10:9-11
Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
- Hosea 8:6
For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
- Exodus 32:20
And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
- Isaiah 41:29
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
- Isaiah 46:1-2
Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast. They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
- Isaiah 36:18-20
Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The Lord will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
- 2 Samuel 5:21
And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
- Isaiah 41:7
So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
- Jeremiah 10:3-6
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
- Jeremiah 10:11
Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
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Context
- Isaiah 37:18
Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,
- Isaiah 37:19
And 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.
- Isaiah 37:20
Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord, even thou only.
Isaiah 37:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y entregaron los dioses de ellos al fuego: porque no eran dioses, sino obra de manos de hombre, leño y piedra: por eso los deshicieron. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et ont jeté au feu leurs dieux; car ce n’étaient pas des dieux, mais l’ouvrage de mains d’homme, – du bois, et de la pierre; et ils les ont détruits. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | und sie haben ihre Götter ins Feuer geworfen, denn sie waren nicht Götter, sondern ein Werk von Menschenhänden, Holz und Stein, und sie haben sie zerstört. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et dederunt deos earum igni: non enim erant dii, sed opera manuum hominum, lignum et lapis, et comminuerunt eos. |