Isaiah 40:19
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
Context
This verse from Isaiah Chapter 40 connects to 10 cross-references. The great transition in the book with the tender announcement 'Comfort, comfort my people.' A voice calls for a highway for God through the wilderness. God tends his flock like a shepherd, carrying lambs. He gives power to the faint; …
Other Translations
The image, a workman hath cast it, and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains.
The graven image poured out hath a artisan, And a refiner with gold spreadeth it over, And chains of silver he is refining.
The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.
Cross References
And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your …
And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a …
Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them …
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each …
Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,
And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood …