American King James Version
"The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains. "
— Isaiah 40:19, American King James Version
“The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.”
“The image, a workman hath cast it, and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains. ”
“A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.”
“A craftsman casts an idol; a metalsmith overlays it with gold and forges silver chains for it.”
“Hath the workman cast a graven statue? or hath the goldsmith formed it with gold, or the silversmith with plates of silver?”
“The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.”
“The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.”
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. ¶
To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare to him?
The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.
He that is so impoverished that he has no oblation chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks to him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
Have you not known? have you not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
It is he that sits on the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in: