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.