Psalms 115:8
Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
BSB
ASV
They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them.
KJV
They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
They that make them are like unto them,.... As stupid as the matter of which they are made; as sottish and as senseless as the idols themselves, see Isa 44:9. Aben Ezra and Kimchi interpret it as a petition, "let them that make them be like unto them"; and so the Targum, the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions: they liked not to retain God in their knowledge, let them be given up to a reprobate mind, to a mind void of all sense and judgment; and which indeed is their case, Rom 1:
They that make them are like unto them. Those who make such things for worship are as stupid, senseless, and irrational as the figures they construct. So far as any spiritual life, thought, and judgment are concerned, they are rather the images of men than rational beings. The censure is by no means too severe. Who has not found the words leaping to his lips when he has seen the idols of the Romans? So is every one that trusteth in them.
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Jonah 2:8Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
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But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.
They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding…
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.
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Jeremiah 10:8But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
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Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for lack of a shepherd.
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Psalms 135:18Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
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The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.