Isaiah, Chapter 44, verses 12-17: BIBLE, New American Standard Bible == BIBLE-CENTER

Isaiah, Chapter 44, verses 12-17

¹² The man shapes iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals,ⁱfashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm. He also gets hungry and^jhis strength fails; he drinks no water and becomes weary. ¹³ Another shapes wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with red chalk. He works it with planes and outlines it with a compass, and makes it like the form of a man, like the beauty of man, so that it may sit in a house. ¹⁴ Surely he cuts cedars for himself, and takes a^kcypress or an oak and^lraises it for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow. ¹⁵ Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and falls down before it. ¹⁶ Half of it he burns in the fire; over this half he eats meat as he roasts a roast and is satisfied. He also warms himself and says, “Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire.” ¹⁷ But the rest of it he makes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god.”


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