Isaiah 41:29

In 11 translations

BSB

See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.

KJV

Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

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.

LSV

“Behold, all of them [are] vanity, || Their works [are] nothing, || Their molten images [are] wind and emptiness!”

YLT

'Lo, all of them [are] vanity, Nought [are] their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!'

DBY

Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nought, their molten images are wind and emptiness.

DRC

Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.

GNV

Beholde, they are all vanitie: their worke is of nothing, their images are wind and confusion.

JPS

Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.

LXXE

For these are your makers, as ye think, and they that cause you to err in vain.

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WLC

הֵ֣ן כֻּלָּ֔ם אָ֥וֶן אֶ֖פֶס מַעֲשֵׂיהֶ֑ם ר֥וּחַ וָתֹ֖הוּ נִסְכֵּיהֶֽם׃

LXX-Br

Εἰσὶ γὰρ οἱ ποιοῦντες ὑμᾶς, καὶ μάτην οἱ πλανῶντες ὑμᾶς.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Jeremiah 5:13The prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them. So let their own predictions befall them.”
• Isaiah 41:24Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.
• Psalms 115:4–8Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men. They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see; they have ears, but cannot hear; they have noses, but cannot smell; they have hands, but…
• Habakkuk 2:18What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it— or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
• Psalms 135:15–18The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men. They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see; they have ears, but cannot hear; nor is there breath in their mouths. Those…
• Jeremiah 10:2–16This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them. For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut…
• Isaiah 44:9–20All 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? Behold,…

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