Key Verse Spotlight
Isaiah 40:19 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it. "
Isaiah 40:19
Verse in Context
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17 All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
18 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
19 A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
20 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up a carved image for him that will not be moved.
21 Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?
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Isaiah 40:1
"“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God."
Isaiah 40:2
"“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.”"
Isaiah 40:3
"The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of the LORD in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God."
Isaiah 40:4
"Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain."
Isaiah 40:5
"The LORD’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.”"
Isaiah 40:6
"The voice of one saying, “Cry out!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field."
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