Bible verse
To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?
Isaiah 40:19 · BSB
The verses around it, from Isaiah 40.
15 Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
16 Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel, nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.
17 All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.
18 To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?
19 To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?
20 To one bereft of an offering who chooses wood that will not rot, who seeks 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 declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the foundation of the earth?
22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
23 He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.
KJV
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
ASV
The image, a workman hath cast it, and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains.
ERV
The graven image, a workman melted it, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth for it silver chains.
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