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


In Context

16 Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.

17 All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

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

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

20 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.

21 Haven't you known? Haven't you heard, yet? Haven't you been told from the beginning? Haven't you 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 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.