19The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.


In Context

16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

18 To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare to him?

19 The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.

20 He that is so impoverished that he has no oblation chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks to him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.

21 Have you not known? have you not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

Isaiah 40:19 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

40:19The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

40:19As for an idol, a craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

40:19Hath the workman cast a graven statue? or hath the goldsmith formed it with gold, or the silversmith with plates of silver?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

40:19The image, a workman hath cast it , and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it'silver chains.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:19The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains for it.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

40:19The graven image, a workman melted it, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth for it silver chains.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:19The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:19A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

40:19The graven image poured out hath a artisan, And a refiner with gold spreadeth it over, And chains of silver he is refining.