Isaiah 41:24
Good News Translation
You and all you do are nothing; those who worship you are disgusting!

New Revised Standard Version
You, indeed, are nothing and your work is nothing at all; whoever chooses you is an abomination.

Contemporary English Version
You idols are nothing, and you are powerless. To worship you would be disgusting.

New American Bible
Why, you are nothing and your work is nought; to choose you is an abomination!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.

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Isaiah 41:29 Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.

Isaiah 44:9,10 The makers of idols are all of them nothing, and their best beloved things shall not profit them. They are their witnesses, that they do not see, nor understand, that they may be ashamed. . . .

Psalm 115:8 Let them that make them become like unto them: and all such as trust in them.

Jeremiah 10:8,14 They shall be all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood. . . .

Jeremiah 51:17,18 Every man is become foolish by his knowledge: every founder is confounded by his idol, for what he hath cast is a lie, and there is no breath in them. . . .

1 Corinthians 8:4 But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one.

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Isaiah 66:24 And they shall go out, and see the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched: and they shall be a loathsome sight to all flesh.

Deuteronomy 7:26 Neither shalt thou bring any thing of the idol into thy house, lest thou become an anathema, like it. Thou shalt detest it as dung, and shalt utterly abhor it as uncleanness and filth, because it is an anathema.

Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed be the man that maketh a graven and molten thing, the abomination of the Lord, the work of the hands of artificers, and shall put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say: Amen.

Revelation 17:5 And on her forehead a name was written: A mystery: Babylon the great, the mother of the fornications and the abominations of the earth.

Context
Meaningless Idols
23Shew the things that are to come hereafter, and we shall know that ye are gods. Do ye also good or evil, if you can: and let us speak, and see together. 24Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.25I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come from the rising of the sun: he shall call upon my name, and he shall make princes to be as dirt, and as the potter treading clay.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 8:4
But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one.

Psalm 115:8
Let them that make them become like unto them: and all such as trust in them.

Proverbs 3:32
Want is from the Lord in the house of the wicked: but the habitations of the just shall be blessed.

Proverbs 28:9
He that turneth away his ears from hearing the law, his prayer shall be an abomination.

Isaiah 37:19
And they have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the works of men's hands, of wood and stone: and they broke them in pieces.

Isaiah 41:29
Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.

Isaiah 44:9
The makers of idols are all of them nothing, and their best beloved things shall not profit them. They are their witnesses, that they do not see, nor understand, that they may be ashamed.

Jeremiah 10:5
They are framed after the likeness of a palm tree, and shall not speak: they must be carried to be removed, because they cannot go. Therefore fear them not, for they can neither do evil nor good.

Jeremiah 10:15
They are vain things, and a ridiculous work: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Isaiah 41:23
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