Isaiah 40:19 “To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold…”

Isaiah 40:19

To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

World English Bible

A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.

American Standard Version

The image, a workman hath cast it, and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains.

Geneva Bible 1599

The workeman melteth an image, or the goldsmith beateth it out in golde, or the goldesmith maketh siluer plates.

Darby Translation

The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains [for it].

Young's Literal Translation

The graven image poured out hath a artisan, And a refiner with gold spreadeth it over, And chains of silver he is refining.

Bible in Basic English

The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.

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Cross references

“The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.”

Jeremiah 10:9 Exodus 32:2–4 Judges 17:4 Psalm 115:4–8 Isaiah 44:10–12 Psalm 135:15

Jeremiah 10:9 · BSB

Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz— the work of a craftsman from the hands of a goldsmith. Their clothes are blue and purple, all fashioned by skilled workers.

Exodus 32:2–4 · BSB

So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”

Judges 17:4 · BSB

So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.

Psalm 115:4–8 · BSB

Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.

Isaiah 44:10–12 · BSB

Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?

Psalm 135:15 · BSB

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.

Also

Isaiah 2:20

Isaiah 2:20 · BSB

In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold— the idols they made to worship.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

18To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?

20One lacking such an offering chooses wood that will not rot. He seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple.

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