Isaiah 40:19
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
19 An idol? A workman casts it,
and a goldsmith overlays it with gold
and casts for it silver chains.(A)
Isaiah 41:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 Each one helps the other,
saying to one another, “Take courage!”(A)
Jeremiah 10:3-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 For the customs of the peoples are false:
a tree from the forest is cut down
and worked with an ax by the hands of an artisan;(A)
4 they deck it with silver and gold;
they fasten it with hammers and nails
so that it cannot move.(B)
5 Their idols[a] are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
and they cannot speak;
they have to be carried,
for they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
for they cannot do evil,
nor is it in them to do good.(C)
Footnotes
- 10.5 Heb They
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.