Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

9 They that form a graven image are all of them waste; and their desirable things shall not profit; and their witnesses, they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

10 Who hath formed a god, and molten a graven, image, to no profit?

11 Behold, all his company shall be ashamed; and the craftsmen, they are of men; they shall all be gathered together, they shall stand up; they shall fear, they shall be ashamed together.

[*](5. ‘call on . . . ,’ or, ‘proclaim, In the name of Jacob.’ ‘write with . . . ’: or, ‘inscribe on his hand, To the Lord.’ ‘entitle’: or, ‘call in honour.)[*](7. Some render, ‘let him tell it, and . . . ‘to them’; or, ‘on their part’ (ethic dat.).)

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12 The craftsman in iron (hath) an adze, and worketh in the coals, and formeth it with hammers, with the arm of his strehgth moreover he is hungry, and there is no strength: he drinketh no water, and is faint.

13 The craftsman in wood stretcheth out a line, he marketh it with a pencil; he shapeth it with planes, and marketh it out with the compass; and maketh it like the ﬁgure of a man, like the beauty of mankind: to dwell in a house.

14 He will hew him down cedars, and taketh ilex and oak, and strengtheneth for himself (one) among the trees of the forest: he planteth a pine, and the rain maketh it great.

15 And it shall be for man for burning: and he taketh of them, and warmeth himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he fashioneth a god, and boweth himself; he maketh it a grav image, and falleth down thereto.

16 He burneth half thereof in the ﬁre: with half thereof he eateth ﬂesh: he roasteth roast, and is satisfied; yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen ﬁre: