17They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god.


In Context

14 I have always held my peace, I have I kept silence, I have been patient, I will speak now as a woman in labour: I will destroy, and swallow up at once.

15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and will make all their grass to wither: and I will turn rivers into islands, and will dry up the standing pools.

16 And I will lead the blind into the way which they know not: and in the paths which they were ignorant of I will make them walk: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight: these things have I done to them, and have not forsaken them.

17 They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god.

18 Hear, ye deaf, and, ye blind, behold that you may see.

19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, but he to whom I have sent my messengers? Who is blind, but he that is sold? or who is blind, but the servant of the Lord?

Isaiah 42:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

42:17They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye [are] our gods.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

42:17But those who trust in idols, who say to images, 'You are our gods,' will be turned back in utter shame. Israel Blind and Deaf

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

42:17They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly put to shame, that trust in graven images, that say unto molten images, Ye are our gods.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

42:17They shall be turned back, they shall be covered with shame, that confide in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

42:17They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say unto molten images, Ye are our gods.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

42:17They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

42:17|Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, 'You are our gods' will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

42:17Removed backward — utterly ashamed, Are those trusting in a graven image, Those saying to a molten image, 'Ye are our gods.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

42:17They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, You are our gods.