Isaiah 44:10
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Isaiah 44:10 in other translations
| BSB | Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing? |
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| WEB | Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing? |
| ASV | Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing? |
| YLT | Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out--not profitable? |
| DARBY | Who hath formed agod, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? |
| BBE | Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit. |
| Webster | Who hath formed a god, or cast a graven image that is profitable for nothing? |
What does Isaiah 44:10 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 44:9-20
Image-making is described, to expose the folly of idolaters. Though a man had used part of a log for fuel, he fell down before an image made of the remainder, praying it to deliver him. Man greatly dishonours God, when he represents him after the image of man. Satan blinds the eyes of unbelievers, causing absurd reasonings in matters of religion. Whether men seek happiness in worldly things, or run into unbelief…
Isaiah 44:10 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 44:10
- Jeremiah 10:5
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.
- 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?
- Acts 19:26
Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
- Daniel 3:1
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
- 1 Corinthians 8:4
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
- Isaiah 41:29
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
- 1 Kings 12:28
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
- Daniel 3:14
Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
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Context
- Isaiah 44:9
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.
- Isaiah 44:10
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
- Isaiah 44:11
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.
Isaiah 44:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Quién formó un dios, ó quién fundó una estatua que para nada es de provecho? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Qui a formé un ✶dieu, ou fondu une image, qui n’est d’aucun profit? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wer hat einen Gott gebildet und ein Bild gegossen, daß es nichts nütze? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quis formavit deum, et sculptile conflavit ad nihil utile? |