29Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
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And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. …
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-29)The Lord, by the prophet, here repeats the challenge to idolaters to make out the pretentions of their idols: “ Produce your cause (Isa. 41:21) and make your best of it; bring forth the strongest reasons you have to prove that your idols are gods, and worthy of your adoration.” Note, There needs no more to show the absurdity of sin than to produce the reasons that are given in defence of it, for t…
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