American Standard Version
"The image, a workman hath cast it, and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains. "
— Isaiah 40:19, American Standard Version
“The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth 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 the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
The image, a workman hath cast it, and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains.
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.
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?
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;