Isaiah 40:20

Old Testament Major Prophet ASV (1901)

He that is too impoverished for [such] an oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilful workman to set up a graven image, that shall not be moved.

Isaiah 40:20 — American Standard Version

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Context — Isaiah 40

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17All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

18To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

19The image, a workman hath cast [it], and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth [for it] silver chains.

20He that is too impoverished for [such] an oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilful workman to set up a graven image, that shall not be moved.

21Have ye not known? have yet 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 above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

23that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

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