9 All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in edo not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be fput to shame.
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1 Samuel 12:21
And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.
Isaiah 44:10
Who fashions a god or casts an idol that is profitable for nothing?
Jeremiah 2:8
The priests did not say, ‘Where is the LORD?’
Those who handle the law did not know me;
the shepherds transgressed against me;
the prophets prophesied by Baal
and went after things that do not profit.
Jeremiah 2:11
Has a nation changed its gods,
even though they are no gods?
But my people have changed their glory
for that which does not profit.
Habakkuk 2:18
“What profit is an idol
when its maker has shaped it,
a metal image, a teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in his own creation
when he makes speechless idols!
Psalm 97:7
All worshipers of images are put to shame,
who make their boast in worthless idols;
worship him, all you gods!
Isaiah 42:17
They are turned back and utterly put to shame,
who trust in carved idols,
who say to metal images,
“You are our gods.”
Isaiah 45:16
All of them are put to shame and confounded;
the makers of idols go in confusion together.
Jeremiah 10:14
Every man is stupid and without knowledge;
every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,
for his images are false,
and there is no breath in them.
Jeremiah 51:17
Every man is stupid and without knowledge;
every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,
for his images are false,
and there is no breath in them.
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