Isaiah 41:29
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.”
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“See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`Lo, all of them <FI>are<Fi> vanity, Nought <FI>are<Fi> their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 41:29 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 12:21Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.
- Psalms 96:5For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.
- Psalms 115:4Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
- Psalms 135:15The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
- Isaiah 41:24Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.
- Isaiah 44:9All 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.
- Isaiah 46:7They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not answer; it saves no one from his troubles.
- Jeremiah 5:13The prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them. So let their own predictions befall them.”
- Jeremiah 10:2This 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.
- 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.
- Zechariah 10:2For idols speak deceitand diviners see illusions;they tell false dreamsand offer empty comfort.Therefore the people wander like sheep,oppressed for lack of a shepherd.
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