Isaiah 41:29 See, they are all false! Their deeds amount to nothing; their images are but wind and confusion.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
See, they are all false! Their deeds amount to nothing; their images are but wind and confusion.

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

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

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

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

International Standard Version
See, none of them exist, and their deeds are nothing. Their metal images are only 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.

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

Cross References

Judges 18:17
And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.

1 Samuel 12:21
And turn you not aside: for then should you go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

Isaiah 2:8
Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

Isaiah 17:8
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

Isaiah 37:19
And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

Isaiah 41:24
Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of nothing: an abomination is he that chooses you.

Isaiah 44:9
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

Isaiah 44:10
Who has formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

Jeremiah 5:13
And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done to them.

Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? are not you he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait on you: for you have made all these things.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

29. confusion—"emptiness" [Barnes].