Their (A)idols are silver and gold,
The (B)work of human hands.

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But their idols are silver and gold,(A)
    made by human hands.(B)

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15 The (A)idols of the nations are nothing but silver and gold,
The work of human hands.

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15 The idols of the nations(A) are silver and gold,
    made by human hands.(B)

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19 As for the [a](A)idol, a craftsman casts it,
A goldsmith (B)plates it with gold,
And a silversmith fashions chains of silver.
20 He who is too impoverished for such an offering
Selects a (C)tree that does not rot;
He seeks out for himself a skillful craftsman
To [b]prepare [c]an idol that (D)will not totter.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:19 Or carved image
  2. Isaiah 40:20 Or set up
  3. Isaiah 40:20 Or a carved image

19 As for an idol,(A) a metalworker casts it,
    and a goldsmith(B) overlays it with gold(C)
    and fashions silver chains for it.
20 A person too poor to present such an offering
    selects wood(D) that will not rot;
they look for a skilled worker
    to set up an idol(E) that will not topple.(F)

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The King’s Golden Image

Nebuchadnezzar the king made a (A)statue of gold, the height of which was [a]sixty cubits, and its width six cubits; he set it up on the plain of Dura in the (B)province of Babylon.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 3:1 About 90 ft. high and 9 ft. wide or 27 m and 2.7 m

The Image of Gold and the Blazing Furnace

King Nebuchadnezzar made an image(A) of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide,[a] and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 3:1 That is, about 90 feet high and 9 feet wide or about 27 meters high and 2.7 meters wide

19 Woe to him who (A)says to a piece of wood, ‘(B)Awake!’
To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’
That is your teacher?
Behold, it is overlaid with (C)gold and silver,
Yet there is (D)no breath at all inside it.

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19 Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Come to life!’
    Or to lifeless stone, ‘Wake up!’(A)
Can it give guidance?
    It is covered with gold and silver;(B)
    there is no breath in it.”(C)

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