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Psalms 115:4

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.

KJV

Calicem salutaris accipiam, et nomen Domini invocabo.

Vulgate

ποτήριον σωτηρίου λήμψομαι, καὶ τὸ ὄνομα Κυρίου ἐπικαλέσομαι.

LXX

Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands.

ASV

עֲֽ֭צַבֵּי/הֶם כֶּ֣סֶף וְ/זָהָ֑ב מַ֝עֲשֵׂ֗ה יְדֵ֣י אָדָֽם

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אָדָ֖ם
'dm
noun · 545×
הָ
h
noun · 17×
וֹ
v
noun · 1620×
זָהָ֖ב
zhb
noun · 388×
כֶּ֣סֶף
ksp
noun · 402×
מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה
m'shh
noun · 234×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

2 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

  • 1Kgs 14:9 — But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
  • 1Kgs 16:7 — And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him
  • 1Sam 5:5 — Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon’s house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.
  • Acts 17:29 — Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
  • 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:
  • Dan 3:1 — Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
  • Dan 5:4 — They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
  • Dan 5:23 — But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and
  • Deut 4:28 — And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
  • Deut 4:28 — And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
  • Exod 20:4 — Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
  • Gal 4:8 — Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
  • 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?
  • 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?
  • Isa 2:8 — Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
  • Isa 37:19 — And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
  • Isa 40:19 — The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
  • Isa 40:19 — The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
  • Isa 44:10 — Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
  • Isa 46:1 — Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.
  • Isa 46:6 — They 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.
  • Jer 2:11 — Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
  • Jer 2:13 — For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
  • Jer 10:3 — For 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.
  • Jer 10:4 — They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
  • Jer 10:9 — Silver 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 m
  • 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 16:20 — Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
  • Lev 19:4 — Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
  • Ps 135:15 — The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
  • Ps 135:15 — The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.