Give Praise, O Servants of the LORD
Psalms 135:15
In 11 translations
- BSB
- The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
- KJV
- The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
- WEB
- The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
- ASV
- The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands.
- LSV
- The idols of the nations [are] silver and gold, || Work of the hands of man.
- YLT
- The idols of the nations [are] silver and gold, Work of the hands of man.
- DBY
- The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands:
- DRC134:15
- The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of men’s hands.
- GNV
- The idoles of the heathen are siluer and golde, euen the worke of mens handes.
- JPS
- The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
- LXXE134:15
- The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the works of men's hands.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- עֲצַבֵּ֣י הַ֭גּוֹיִם כֶּ֣סֶף וְזָהָ֑ב מַ֝עֲשֵׂ֗ה יְדֵ֣י אָדָֽם׃
- LXX-Br134:15
- Τὰ εἴδωλα τῶν ἐθνῶν ἀργύριον καὶ χρυσίον, ἔργα χειρῶν ἀνθρώπων.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- 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…
- Jeremiah 10:3–11For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman. They adorn it with silver and gold and fasten it with hammer and nails, so…
- 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.
- Habakkuk 2:18–19What 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. Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent…
- Acts 17:29Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.
- 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,…
- Isaiah 46:6–7They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship. They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its…
- Deuteronomy 4:28And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
- Isaiah 40:19–20To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains? To one bereft of an offering who chooses wood that will not rot, who seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that…
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