KJV King James Version
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
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Isaiah 40:19
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?
WEB World English Bible
A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
ASV American Standard Version
The image, a workman hath cast it, and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
The graven image poured out hath a artisan, And a refiner with gold spreadeth it over, And chains of silver he is refining.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 40
16 And Lebanon [is] not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
17 All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
20 He that [is] so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree [that] will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, [that] shall not be moved.
21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22 [It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
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Jeremiah 10:9Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple [is] their clothing: they [are] all the work of cunning [men].Isaiah 46:6-7They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, [and] hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.Exodus 32:2-4And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which [are] in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring [them] unto me.Psalm 115:4-8Their idols [are] silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.Judges 17:4Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred [shekels] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.Habakkuk 2:18-19What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?Isaiah 44:10-12Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image [that] is profitable for nothing?Hosea 8:6For from Israel [was] it also: the workman made it; therefore it [is] not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.Isaiah 2:20In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made [each one] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;Isaiah 37:18-19Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,Jeremiah 10:3-5For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.Psalm 135:15The idols of the heathen [are] silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.Psalm 135:18They that make them are like unto them: [so is] every one that trusteth in them.Isaiah 41:6-7They helped every one his neighbour; and [every one] said to his brother, Be of good courage.
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