Isaiah 41:24

In 11 translations

BSB

Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.

KJV

Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.of nothing: or, worse than nothingof nought: or, worse than of a viper

WEB

Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

ASV

Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you.

LSV

Behold, you [are] of nothing, and your work of nothing, || An abomination—it fixes on you.

YLT

Lo, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought, An abomination — it fixeth on you.

DBY

Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you. ...

DRC

Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.

GNV

Beholde, ye are of no value, and your making is of naught: man hath chosen an abomination by them.

JPS

Behold, ye are nothing, and your work a thing of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you.

LXXE

whence ye are, and whence is your work: they have chosen you an abomination out of the earth.

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WLC

הֵן־אַתֶּ֣ם מֵאַ֔יִן וּפָעָלְכֶ֖ם מֵאָ֑פַע תּוֹעֵבָ֖ה יִבְחַ֥ר בָּכֶֽם׃

LXX-Br

ὅτι πόθεν ἐστὲ ὑμεῖς, καὶ πόθεν ἡ ἐργασία ὑμῶν· ἐκ γῆς βδέλυγμα ἐξελέξαντο ὑμᾶς.

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• 1 Corinthians 8:4So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
• Psalms 115:8Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
• Isaiah 41:29See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
• Jeremiah 10:14Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
• Jeremiah 10:8But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
• Isaiah 37:19They 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.
• Jeremiah 51:17–18Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them. They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of…
• Deuteronomy 27:15‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
• Deuteronomy 7:26And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.
• Isaiah 66:24“As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”
• Isaiah 44:9–10All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame. Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?
• Revelation 17:5And on her forehead a mysterious name was written: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

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