Isaiah 44:10
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
KJV
Quis formavit deum, et sculptile conflavit ad nihil utile ?
Vulgate
οἱ πλάσσοντες θεὸν καὶ γλύφοντες, πάντες ἀνωφελῆ,
LXX
Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
ASV
מִֽי יָצַ֥ר אֵ֖ל וּ/פֶ֣סֶל נָסָ֑ךְ לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י הוֹעִֽיל
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֵ֣ל
'l
noun · 244×
בִלְתִּ֖י
blty
preposition · 112×
הַסֵּ֥ךְ
hsk
verb · 25×
הוֹעִ֔יל
hv'yl
verb · 23×
וֹ
v
verb · 63×
מִ֣י
my
particle · 420×
פָּ֑סֶל
psl
noun · 30×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2112The first commandment condemns polytheism. It requires man neither to believe in, nor to venerate, other divinities than the one true God. Scripture constantly recalls this rejection of "idols, (of) silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see." These empty idols make their worshippers empty: "Those who make them are like th…
Cross-references
- Acts 19:26 — Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
- Acts 19:26 — Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
- Hab 2:18 — What 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?
- Jer 10:5 — They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
- Jer 16:19 — O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanit
- Ps 115:4 — Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.