Isaiah 41:29
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
Isaiah 41:29 in other translations
| BSB | See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind. |
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| WEB | Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion. |
| ASV | Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; their molten images are wind and confusion. |
| YLT | ‘Lo, all of them are vanity, Nought are their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!' |
| DARBY | Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nought, their molten images are wind and emptiness. |
| BBE | Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind. |
| Webster | Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion. |
What does Isaiah 41:29 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 41:21-29
There needs no more to show the folly of sin, than to bring to notice the reasons given in defence of it. There is nothing in idols worthy of regard. They are less than nothing, and worse than nothing. Let the advocates of other doctrines than that of salvation through Christ, bring their arguments. Can they tell of a cure for human depravity? Jehovah has power which cannot be withstood; this he will make appear…
Isaiah 41:29 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 41:29
- Jeremiah 5:13
And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
- Isaiah 41:24
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
- Isaiah 44:9-20
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. 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 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. …
- Habakkuk 2:18
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?
- Psalms 135:15-18
The idols of the heathen 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; neither is there any breath in their mouths. They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.
- Jeremiah 10:2-16
Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 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. …
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
24; 44:9-20; Ps 115:4-8; 135:15-18; Jer 10:2-16; Hab 2:18
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Jer 5:13
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain
Context
- Isaiah 41:28
For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
- Isaiah 41:29
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
Isaiah 41:29 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | He aquí, todos iniquidad, y las obras de ellos nada: viento y vanidad son sus vaciadizos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Voici, tous sont la vanité, leurs œuvres sont un néant, leurs images de fonte sont le vent et le vide. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Siehe, sie allesamt-Eitelkeit, Nichtigkeit sind ihre Machwerke, Wind und Leere ihre gegossenen Bilder. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ecce omnes injusti, et vana opera eorum; ventus et inane simulacra eorum. |