Berean Standard Bible
Isaiah 44:9-19
9All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.10Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?11Behold, all his companions will be put to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are only human. Let them all assemble and take their stand; they will all be brought to terror and shame.
12The blacksmith takes a tooland labors over the coals;he fashions an idol with hammersand forges it with his strong arms.Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength;he fails to drink water and grows faint.13The woodworker extends a measuring line;he marks it out with a stylus;he shapes it with chiselsand outlines it with a compass.He fashions it in the likeness of man,like man in all his glory,that it may dwell in a shrine.14He cuts down cedarsor retrieves a cypress1 or oak.He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest.He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.15It serves as fuel for man.He takes some of it to warm himself,and he kindles a fireand bakes his bread.He also fashions it into a god and worships it;he makes an idol and bows down to it.16He burns half of it in the fire,and he roasts meat on that half.He eats the roast and is satisfied.Indeed, he warms himself and says,“Ah! I am warm; I see the fire.”17From the rest he makes a god, his graven image.He bows down to it and worships;he prays to it and says,“Save me, for you are my god.”
18They do not comprehend or discern,for He has shut their eyes so they cannot seeand closed their minds so they cannot understand.19And no one considers in his heart,no one has the knowledge or insight to say,“I burned half of it in the fire,and I baked bread on its coals;I roasted meat and I ate.Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it?Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
Notes
- 1. Isaiah 44:14 Or pine or juniper or fir ↩
Commentaries on Isaiah 44
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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