SinaiIsaiah 40:19
American Standard Version
The image, a workman hath cast it, and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains.
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Isaiah 40:19 in other translations
A workman has cast an image,
and the goldsmith overlays it with gold,
and casts silver chains for it.
Isaiah 40:19 in context
- 17All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
- 18To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
- 19The image, a workman hath cast it, and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains.
- 20He that is too impoverished for such an oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilful workman to set up a graven image, that shall not be moved.
- 21Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?