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

they are all

Isaiah 41:24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.

Isaiah 44:9-20 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 115:4-8 The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men. . . .

Psalm 135:15-18 The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of men's hands. . . .

Jeremiah 10:2-16 Thus saith the Lord: Learn not according to the ways of the Gentiles: and be not afraid of the signs of heaven, which the heathens fear: . . .

Habakkuk 2:18 What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath trusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols.

wind

Jeremiah 5:13 The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was no word of God in them: these things therefore shall befall them.

Context
Meaningless Idols
28And I saw, and there was no one even among them to consult, or who, when I asked, could answer a word. 29Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.
Cross References
Judges 18:17
But they that were gone into the house of the young man, went about to take away the graven god, and the ephod, and the theraphim, and the molten god, and the priest stood before the door, the six hundred valiant men waiting not far off.

1 Samuel 12:21
And turn not aside after vain things, which shall never profit you, nor deliver you, because they are vain.

Isaiah 2:8
And their land is filled with horses: and their chariots are innumerable. Their land also is full of idols: they have adored the work of their own hands, which their own fingers have made.

Isaiah 17:8
And he shall not look to the altars which his hands made; and he shall not have respect to the things that his fingers wrought, such as groves and temples.

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 41:24
Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.

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.

Isaiah 44:10
Who hath formed a god, and made a graven thing that is profitable for nothing?

Jeremiah 5:13
The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was no word of God in them: these things therefore shall befall them.

Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the graven things of the Gentiles that can send rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou the Lord our God, whom we have looked for? for thou hast made all these things.

Lexicon
See,
הֵ֣ן (hên)
Interjection
Strong's Hebrew 2005: Lo! behold!

[they are] all
כֻּלָּ֔ם (kul·lām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

a delusion;
אָ֥וֶן (’ā·wen)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 205: Strictly nothingness, trouble, vanity, wickedness, an idol

their works
מַעֲשֵׂיהֶ֑ם (ma·‘ă·śê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4639: An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property

amount to nothing;
אֶ֖פֶס (’e·p̄es)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 657: Cessation, an end, no further, the ankle, foot

their images
נִסְכֵּיהֶֽם׃ (nis·kê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5262: A libation, a cast idol

are as empty
וָתֹ֖הוּ (wā·ṯō·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8414: A desolation, desert, a worthless thing, in vain

as the wind.
ר֥וּחַ (rū·aḥ)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit


Additional Translations
See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

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

For these are your makers, as ye think, and they that cause you to err in vain.

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

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

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

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

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