Isaiah 41:24 “Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who choos…”

Isaiah 41:24

Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.

World English Bible

Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

American Standard Version

Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you.

Geneva Bible 1599

Beholde, ye are of no value, and your making is of naught: man hath chosen an abomination by them.

Darby Translation

Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you. ...

Young's Literal Translation

Lo, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought, An abomination — it fixeth on you.

Bible in Basic English

But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish is he who takes you for his gods.

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Cross references

“ye are”

Psalm 115:8 1 Corinthians 8:4 Isaiah 41:29 Jeremiah 10:8 Jeremiah 10:14 Isaiah 44:9

Psalm 115:8 · BSB

Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

1 Corinthians 8:4 · BSB

So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.

Isaiah 41:29 · BSB

See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.

Jeremiah 10:8 · BSB

But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

Jeremiah 10:14 · BSB

Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.

Isaiah 44:9 · BSB

All 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.

“an abomination”

Isaiah 66:24 Deuteronomy 7:26 Deuteronomy 27:15 Revelation 17:5

Isaiah 66:24 · BSB

“As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”

Deuteronomy 7:26 · BSB

And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.

Deuteronomy 27:15 · BSB

‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Revelation 17:5 · BSB

And on her forehead a mysterious name was written: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Also

Isaiah 37:19

Isaiah 37:19 · BSB

They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.

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

In context

23Tell us the things that are to come, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do something good or evil, that we may look on together in dismay.

25I have raised up one from the north, and he has come— one from the east who calls on My name. He will march over rulers as if they were mortar, like a potter who treads the clay.

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