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


In Context

16 Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires, nor its animals enough for burnt offerings.

17 Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing.

18 To whom, then, will you compare God? What image will you compare him to?

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

20 A man too poor to present such an offering selects wood that will not rot. He looks for a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple.

21 Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded?

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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

40:19The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.