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The LORD Has Chosen Israel

Isaiah 44:10

In 11 translations

BSB
Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?
KJV
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
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?
LSV
Who has formed a god, || And poured out a molten image—not profitable?
YLT
Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out — not profitable?
DBY
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?El
DRC
Who hath formed a god, and made a graven thing that is profitable for nothing?
GNV
Who hath made a god, or molten an image, that is profitable for nothing?
JPS
Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
LXXE
that form a god, and all that grave worthless things:

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Original-language editions

WLC
מִֽי־יָצַ֥ר אֵ֖ל וּפֶ֣סֶל נָסָ֑ךְ לְבִלְתִּ֖י הוֹעִֽיל׃
LXX-Br
οἱ πλάσσοντες θεὸν, καὶ γλύφοντες πάντες ἀνωφελῆ,

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  • Jeremiah 10:5Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and neither can they do any good.”
  • 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.
  • Acts 19:26And you can see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in nearly the whole province of Asia, Paul has persuaded a great number of people to turn away. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all.
  • Daniel 3:14and Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, is it true that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden statue I have set up?
  • Isaiah 41:29See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
  • Daniel 3:1King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
  • 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.
  • 1 Kings 12:28After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

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