⁹Those who fashion ¹a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be ^aput to shame.

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Footnotes

1Or an idol

Cross references

a Ps 97:7; Is 42:17; 44:11; 45:16

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

All who make idols are nothing,

and the things they treasure are worthless.

Those who would speak up for them are blind;

they are ignorant, to their own shame.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

All who make idols are nothing,

and what they treasure benefits no one.

Their witnesses do not see or know anything,

so they will be put to shame.

NLTNew Living Translation

How foolish are those who manufacture idols.

These prized objects are really worthless.

The people who worship idols don’t know this,

so they are all put to shame.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

All those who form an idol are nothing,

and their delightful things do not profit.

And their witnesses do not see or know,

so they will be ashamed.

KJV 1900King James Version

They that make a graven image are all of them vanity;

And their delectable things shall not profit;

And they are their own witnesses;

They see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

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