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Isaiah 40:19
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
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Isaiah 40:19 in other translations
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?
A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
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In context
16 And Lebanon [is] not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts of it sufficient for a burnt-offering.
17 All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare to him?
19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
20 He that [is] so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree [that] will not rot; he seeketh for himself a skillful workman to prepare a graven image [that] shall not be moved.
21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22 [It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
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