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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.

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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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