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Isaiah 41:29

See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.

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ASV

Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.

KJV

Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

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8 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
הֵ֣ןhenthere!H2005 →
כֻּלָּ֔םku.Lamall of themH3605 →
אָ֥וֶן'A.ven[are] deceptionH205 →
אֶ֖פֶס'E.fes[are] nothingH657 →
מַעֲשֵׂיהֶ֑םma.'a.sei.Hemdeeds theirH4639 →
ר֥וּחַRu.ach[are] a windH7307 →
וָתֹ֖הוּva.To.huand emptinessH8414 →
נִסְכֵּיהֶֽם׃ פnis.kei.Hemmolten images theirH5262 →

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Isaiah 41:11Behold, all who rage against you will be ashamed and disgraced; those who contend with you will be reduced to nothing and will perish.Jeremiah 5:13The prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them. So let their own predictions befall them.”Isaiah 44:9All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.Jeremiah 14:22Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.Isaiah 41:24Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.1 Corinthians 3:7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.Jeremiah 18:15Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.1 Corinthians 10:19Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?1 Kings 16:13This happened because of all the sins Baasha and his son Elah had committed and had caused Israel to commit, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless idols.Jeremiah 10:8But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!Psalms 97:7All worshipers of images are put to shame— those who boast in idols. Worship Him, all you gods!Isaiah 44:9–20All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.Habakkuk 2:18What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.Psalms 115:4–8Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.Psalms 135:15–18The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.Jeremiah 10:2–16This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them.1 Samuel 12:21Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.Isaiah 37:19They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.

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The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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