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


In Context

14 |I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

15 I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.

16 I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know. I will lead them in paths that they don't know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

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

18 |Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.

19 Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh's servant?

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

42:17They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god.

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 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.