KJVThe workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
The image, a workman hath cast it, and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains.
To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?
The graven image poured out hath a artisan, And a refiner with gold spreadeth it over, And chains of silver he is refining.
The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains [for it].
Isaiah — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
1. Comfort ye. The Prophet introduces a new subject; for, leaving the people on whom no favorable impression was made either by threatenings or by admonitions, on account of their desperate wickedness, he turns to posterity, in order to declare that the people who shall be humbled under the cross…