Isaiah 41:29
Strong's Lexicon
See,
הֵ֣ן (hên)
Interjection
Strong's Hebrew 2005: interj 1) behold, lo, though hypothetical part 2) if

[they are] all
כֻּלָּ֔ם (kul·lām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3605: 1) all, the whole 1a) all, the whole of 1b) any, each, every, anything 1c) totality, everything

a delusion;
אָ֥וֶן (’ā·wen)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 205: 1) trouble, wickedness, sorrow 1a) trouble, sorrow 1b) idolatry 1c) trouble of iniquity, wickedness

their works
מַעֲשֵׂיהֶ֑ם (ma·‘ă·śê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4639: 1) deed, work 1a) deed, thing done, act 1b) work, labour 1c) business, pursuit 1d) undertaking, enterprise 1e) achievement 1f) deeds, works (of deliverance and judgment) 1g) work, thing made 1h) work (of God) 1i) product

amount to nothing;
אֶ֖פֶס (’e·p̄es)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 657: 1) ceasing, end, finality

their images
נִסְכֵּיהֶֽם׃ (nis·kê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5262: 1) drink offering, libation, molten image, something poured out 1a) drink offering 1b) molten images

are as empty
וָתֹ֖הוּ (wā·ṯō·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8414: 1) formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness 1a) formlessness (of primeval earth) 1a1) nothingness, empty space 1b) that which is empty or unreal (of idols) (fig) 1c) wasteland, wilderness (of solitary places) 1d) place of chaos 1e) vanity

as the wind.
ר֥וּחַ (rū·aḥ)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7307: 1) wind, breath, mind, spirit 1a) breath 1b) wind 1b1) of heaven 1b2) quarter (of wind), side 1b3) breath of air 1b4) air, gas 1b5) vain, empty thing 1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation) 1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour 1c2) courage 1c3) temper, anger 1c4) impatience, patience 1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented) 1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse 1c7) prophetic spirit 1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals) 1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being 1e) spirit (as seat of emotion) 1e1) desire 1e2) sorrow, trouble 1f) spirit 1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts 1f2) rarely of the will 1f3) as seat especially of moral character 1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son 1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy 1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning 1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power 1g4) as endowing men with various gifts 1g5) as energy of life 1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory 1g7) never referred to as a depersonalised force

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.

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

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

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

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

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.'"

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

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

English Revised Version
Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought: 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!'
















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 ye not aside: for then should ye 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, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth 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 hath 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 unto them.

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

Isaiah 1:1
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
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