Isaiah 41:29
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New International Version (©2011)
See, they are all false! Their deeds amount to nothing; their images are but wind and confusion.

New Living Translation (©2007)
See, they are all foolish, worthless things. All your idols are as empty as the wind.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Behold, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their metal images are empty wind.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Behold, all of them are false; Their works are worthless, Their molten images are wind and emptiness.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Look, all of them are a delusion; their works are nonexistent; their images are wind and emptiness."

International Standard Version (©2012)
See, none of them exist, and their deeds are nothing. Their metal images are only wind and confusion.'"

NET Bible (©2006)
Look, all of them are nothing, their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
All of them are nothing. They can't do anything. Their statues are nothing but air."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Behold, they are all worthless; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

American King James Version
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

American Standard Version
Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.

Darby Bible Translation
Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nought, their molten images are wind and emptiness.

English Revised Version
Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought: their molten images are wind and confusion.

Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

World English Bible
Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

Young's Literal Translation
Lo, all of them are vanity, Nought are their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

41:21-29 There needs no more to show the folly of sin, than to bring to notice the reasons given in defence of it. There is nothing in idols worthy of regard. They are less than nothing, and worse than nothing. Let the advocates of other doctrines than that of salvation through Christ, bring their arguments. Can they tell of a cure for human depravity? Jehovah has power which cannot be withstood; this he will make appear. But the certain knowledge of the future must be only with Jehovah, who fulfils his own plans. All prophecies, except those of the Bible, have been uncertain. In the work of redemption the Lord showed himself much more than in the release of the Jews from Babylon. The good tidings the Lord will send in the gospel, is a mystery hid from ages and generations. A Deliverer is raised up for us, of nobler name and greater power than the deliverer of the captive Jews. May we be numbered among his obedient servants and faithful friends.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Behold, they are all vanity,.... Both the idols and the worshippers of them; in vain they claim the title of deity, to which they have no right; and in vain do men worship them, since they receive no benefit by them:

their works are nothing; they can do nothing, neither good nor evil; nothing is to be hoped or feared from them, and the worship given them is of no avail; nothing is got by it; it is all useless and insignificant, yea, pernicious and harmful:

their molten images are wind and confusion: though they are made of cast metal, yet setting aside the costly matter of which they are made, they are of no more solidity, efficacy, and use, than the wind; and are like the chaos of the first earth, mere "tohu" and "bohu", one of which words is here used, without form and void, having no form of deity on them; and therefore men are directed to turn themselves from them, and behold a most glorious Person, worthy of worship and praise, described in the beginning of the next chapter, "behold my servant", &c.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

29. confusion—"emptiness" [Barnes].

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Meaningless Idols
…27The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that brings good tidings. 28For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counselor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word. 29Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

Judges 18:17 The five men who had spied out the land went inside and took the idol, the ephod and the household gods while the priest and the six hundred armed men stood at the entrance of the gate.
1 Samuel 12:21 Do not turn away after useless idols. They can do you no good, nor can they rescue you, because they are useless.
Isaiah 2:8 Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
Isaiah 17:8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles and the incense altars their fingers have made.
Isaiah 37:19 They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.
Isaiah 41:24 But you are less than nothing and your works are utterly worthless; whoever chooses you is detestable.
Isaiah 44:9 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.
Isaiah 44:10 Who shapes a god and casts an idol, which can profit nothing?
Jeremiah 5:13 The prophets are but wind and the word is not in them; so let what they say be done to them."
Jeremiah 14:22 Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies themselves send down showers? No, it is you, LORD our God. Therefore our hope is in you, for you are the one who does all this.