Isaiah 40:19
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
Isaiah 40:19 in other translations
| BSB | To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains? |
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| WEB | A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it. |
| ASV | The image, a workman hath cast it, and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains. |
| YLT | The graven image poured out hath a artisan, And a refiner with gold spreadeth it over, And chains of silver he is refining. |
| DARBY | The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains for it. |
| BBE | The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it. |
| Webster | The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. |
What does Isaiah 40:19 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 40:18-26
Whatever we esteem or love, fear or hope in, more than God, that creature we make equal with God, though we do not make images or worship them. He that is so poor, that he has scarcely a sacrifice to offer, yet will not be without a god of his own. They spared no cost upon their idols; we grudge what is spent in the service of our God. To prove the greatness of God, the prophet appeals to all ages and nations. Those…
Isaiah 40:19 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 40:19
- Jeremiah 10:9
Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.
- Isaiah 46:6-7
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship. They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
- Exodus 32:2-4
And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
- Habakkuk 2:18-19
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
- 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. …
- Judges 17:4
Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
- Jeremiah 10:3-5
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.
- Isaiah 44:10-12
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together. The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
- Psalms 135:18
They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.
- Psalms 135:15
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
- Isaiah 2:20
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
- 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.
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Context
- Isaiah 40:18
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
- Isaiah 40:19
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
- Isaiah 40:20
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.
Isaiah 40:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | El artífice apareja la imagen de talla, el platero le extiende el oro, y le funde cadenas de plata. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | L’ouvrier fond une image, et l’orfèvre étend l’or dessus et lui fond des chaînes d’argent. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Hat der Künstler das Bild gegossen, so überzieht es der Schmelzer mit Gold und schweißt silberne Ketten daran. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Numquid sculptile conflavit faber? aut aurifex auro figuravit illud, et laminis argenteis argentarius? |