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Psalms 135:15

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

KJV

et excussit Pharaonem et virtutem ejus in mari Rubro, quoniam in æternum misericordia ejus.

Vulgate

καὶ ἐκτινάξαντι Φαραὼ καὶ τὴν δύναμιν αὐτοῦ εἰς θάλασσαν ἐρυθράν, ὅτι εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ·

LXX

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

ASV

עֲצַבֵּ֣י הַ֭/גּוֹיִם כֶּ֣סֶף וְ/זָהָ֑ב מַ֝עֲשֵׂ֗ה יְדֵ֣י אָדָֽם

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אָדָ֖ם
'dm
noun · 545×
גּוֹיִ֔ם
gvym
noun · 557×
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

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

Cross-references

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 36:18 — Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
  • 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 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.
  • 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 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.
  • Ps 115:4 — Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
  • Ps 115:4 — Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
  • Rev 9:20 — And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, a
  • Rom 1:23 — And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.