Isaiah 44:10

Modern

Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?

Traditional

Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

Literal

Who would fashion a god, or cast an idol, that gives no benefit?

Latin

Quis formavit deum, et sculptile conflavit ad nihil utile?

Hebrew

English

Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?

This passage uses the form of a trial speech to press God’s argument that disgrace comes to all who trust in idols and false gods.

Theme notes and profiles

Jeremiah 10:5
Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and neither can they do any good.”
Habakkuk 2:18
What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
Acts 19:26
And you can see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in nearly the whole province of Asia, this Paul has persuaded a great number of people to turn away. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all.
1 Kings 12:28
After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
Daniel 3:14
…and Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, is it true that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden statue I have set up?
Isaiah 41:29
See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
Daniel 3:1
King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
1 Corinthians 8:4
So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.