Isaiah 45 · Verse 16

Isaiah 45:16

They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

Isaiah 45:16, King James Version

Isaiah 45:16 in other translations

BSB	They will all be put to shame and humiliated; the makers of idols will depart together in disgrace.
WEB	They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.
ASV	They shall be put to shame, yea, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together that are makers of idols.
YLT	They have been ashamed, And they have even blushed--all of them, Together gone in confusion have those carving images.
DARBY	They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them; they shall go away in confusion together, the makers of idols.
BBE	All those who have gone against him will be put to shame; the makers of images will be made low.
Webster	They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

What does Isaiah 45:16 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

16. ashamed--"disappointed" in their expectation of help from their idols (see on Is 42:17; Psalm 97. 7).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 16 They shall be ashamed "They are ashamed" - The reader cannot but observe the sudden transition from the solemn adoration of the secret and mysterious nature of God's counsels in regard to his people, to the spirited denunciation of the confusion of idolaters, and the final destruction of idolatry; contrasted with the salvation of Israel, not from temporal captivity, but the eternal salvation by the Messiah, strongly marked by the repetition and augmentation of the phrase, to the ages of eternity. But there is not only a sudden change in the sentiment, the change is equally observable in the construction of the sentences; which from the usual short measure, runs out at once into two distichs of the longer sort of verse. See Prelim. Dissert. p. 66, etc. There is another instance of the same kind and very like to this, of a sudden transition in regard both to the sentiment and construction in Isa 42:17. "His adversaries" - This line, to the great diminution of the beauty of the distich, is imperfect in the present text: the subject of the proposition is not particularly expressed, as it is in the line following. The version of the Septuagint happily supplies the word that is lost: οἱ αντικειμενοι αυτῳ, "his adversaries," the original word was צריו tsaraiv. - L.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 45:11-19

Believers may ask in prayer for what they need; if for their good, it will not be withheld. But how common to hear God called to account for his dealings with man! Cyrus provided for the returning Jews. Those redeemed by Christ shall be provided for. The restoration would convince many, and convert some; and all that truly join the Lord, find his service perfect freedom. Though God be his people's God and Saviour…

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Isaiah 45:16 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בּ֥וֹשׁוּBo.o.shuthey will be ashamedH954

וְגַֽם\־ve.gam-and alsoH1571

נִכְלְמ֖וּnikh.le.Muthey will be put to shameH3637

כֻּלָּ֑םku.Lamall of themH3605

יַחְדָּו֙yach.DavalikeH3162

הָלְכ֣וּha.le.Khuthey will walkH1980

בַכְּלִמָּ֔הva.ke.li.Mahin <the> ignominyH3639

חָרָשֵׁ֖יcha.ra.Sheicraftsmen ofH2796

צִירִֽים\׃tzi.RimimagesH6736

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 45:16

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 44:11
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 42:17
They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
Jeremiah 2:26-27
As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
Isaiah 41:19
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
Jeremiah 10:14-15
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Isaiah 45:20
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
Psalms 97:7
Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

20; 41:19; 42:17; 44:9,11; Ps 97:7; Jer 2:26,27; 10:14,15

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Context

Isaiah 45:15
Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
Isaiah 45:16
They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
Isaiah 45:17
But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

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Isaiah 45:16 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Confusos y avergonzados serán todos ellos; irán con afrenta todos los fabricadores de imágenes.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Ils auront honte, et seront aussi tous confus; ils s’en iront ensemble avec confusion, les fabricateurs d’idoles.
German Elberfelder 1871	Sie alle werden beschämt und auch zu Schanden, sie gehen insgesamt mit Schande dahin, die Götzenmacher.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Confusi sunt, et erubuerunt omnes: simul abierunt in confusionem fabricatores errorum.