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Isaiah 41:24

Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.

KJV

Ecce vos estis ex nihilo, et opus vestrum ex eo quod non est : abominatio est qui elegit vos.

Vulgate

ὅτι πόθεν ἐστὲ ὑμεῖς καὶ πόθεν ἡ ἐργασία ὑμῶν; ἐκ γῆς· βδέλυγμα ἐξελέξαντο ὑμᾶς.

LXX

Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you.

ASV

הֵן אַתֶּ֣ם מֵ/אַ֔יִן וּ/פָעָלְ/כֶ֖ם מֵ/אָ֑פַע תּוֹעֵבָ֖ה יִבְחַ֥ר בָּ/כֶֽם

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵ֥ין
'yn
noun · 787×
אַתָּ֣ה
'th
pronoun · 1088×
אָ֑פַע
'p'
noun · 1×
בָּחַ֣ר
bchr
verb · 168×
וֹ
v
noun · 38×
נִ֨י
ny
pronoun · 313×
תּוֹעֲבַ֣ת
tv'bt
noun · 118×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 8:4 — As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
  • 1Cor 8:4 — As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
  • Isa 41:11 — Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.
  • Isa 41:29 — Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
  • Isa 41:29 — Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
  • Isa 44:9 — They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
  • Jer 10:8 — But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
  • Jer 10:14 — Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
  • Jer 10:15 — They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
  • Ps 115:8 — They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.