Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them. New Living Translation And those who make idols are just like them, as are all who trust in them. English Standard Version Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them. Berean Standard Bible Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them. King James Bible They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them. New King James Version Those who make them are like them; So is everyone who trusts in them. New American Standard Bible Those who make them will become like them, Everyone who trusts in them. NASB 1995 Those who make them will become like them, Everyone who trusts in them. NASB 1977 Those who make them will become like them, Everyone who trusts in them. Legacy Standard Bible Those who make them will become like them, Everyone who trusts in them. Amplified Bible Those who make them will become like them, Everyone who trusts in them. Christian Standard Bible Those who make them are just like them, as are all who trust in them. Holman Christian Standard Bible Those who make them are just like them, as are all who trust in them. American Standard Version They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them. Contemporary English Version Everyone who made the idols and all who trust them are just as helpless as those useless gods. English Revised Version They that make them shall be like unto them; yea, every one that trusteth in them. GOD'S WORD® Translation Those who make idols end up like them. So does everyone who trusts them. Good News Translation May all who made them and who trust in them become like the idols they have made. International Standard Version Those who craft them will become like them, as will all those who trust in them. Majority Standard Bible Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them. NET Bible Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them. New Heart English Bible Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them. Webster's Bible Translation They that make them are like them; so is every one that trusteth in them. World English Bible Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionNor do they mutter through their throat, "" Their makers are like them, "" Everyone who is trusting in them. Young's Literal Translation Nor do they mutter through their throat, Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them. Smith's Literal Translation They making them shall be as they; all that trusted in them. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleLet them that make them become like unto them: and all such as trust in them. Catholic Public Domain Version New American Bible Their makers will be like them, and anyone who trusts in them. New Revised Standard Version Those who make them are like them; so are all who trust in them. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleLet them that make them become like them; and every one that trusts in them. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Their makers shall be like them and all who trust upon them. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them. Brenton Septuagint Translation Let those that make them become like to them, and all who trust in them. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context To Your Name Be the Glory…7they have hands, but cannot feel; they have feet, but cannot walk; they cannot even clear their throats. 8Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them. 9O Israel, trust in the LORD! He is their help and shield.… Cross References Isaiah 44:9-20 All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame. / Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing? / Behold, all his companions will be put to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are only human. Let them all assemble and take their stand; they will all be brought to terror and shame. ... Jeremiah 10:14-15 Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them. / They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish. Habakkuk 2:18-19 What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak. / Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.” 1 Corinthians 12:2 You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. Isaiah 46:5-7 To whom will you liken Me or count Me equal? To whom will you compare Me, that we should be alike? / They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship. / They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not answer; it saves no one from his troubles. Deuteronomy 4:28 And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell. 2 Kings 17:15 They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate. Romans 1:21-23 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. / Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, / and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Isaiah 41:24 Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable. Isaiah 42:17 But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’ will be turned back in utter shame. Hosea 8:4-6 They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction. / He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? / For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria. 1 Kings 18:26-29 And they took the bull that was given them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, shouting, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no sound, and no one answered as they leaped around the altar they had made. / At noon Elijah began to taunt them, saying, “Shout louder, for he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or occupied, or on a journey. Perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened!” / So they shouted louder and cut themselves with knives and lances, as was their custom, until the blood gushed over them. ... 1 Corinthians 8:4-6 So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one. / For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords), / yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist. 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 40:18-20 To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him? / To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains? / One lacking such an offering chooses wood that will not rot. He seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple. Treasury of Scripture They that make them are like to them; so is every one that trusts in them. Psalm 135:18 They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them. Isaiah 44:9-20 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… Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. Jump to Previous Confideth Faith Makers Mutter Puts Throat Trust Trusteth Trusting TrustsJump to Next Confideth Faith Makers Mutter Puts Throat Trust Trusteth Trusting TrustsPsalm 115 1. Because God is truly glorious4. And idols are vanity 9. He exhorts to confidence in God 12. God is to be blessed for his blessing Those who make them This phrase refers to the craftsmen and idolaters who create physical idols. In the Hebrew context, the word for "make" is "עָשָׂה" (asah), which means to fashion or create. Historically, idol-making was a common practice in ancient cultures surrounding Israel, where artisans would craft gods from wood, stone, or metal. The Bible consistently condemns this practice, emphasizing that these idols are the work of human hands and lack divine power or life. The act of making idols is seen as a futile endeavor, as it reflects a misplaced trust in human creation rather than in the Creator. will become like them as will all who trust in them "Who moulds in gold or stone a sacred face Makes not the god; but he who asks his grace." Verse 8. - They that make them are like unto them. Equally vain, futile, and power less (comp. Isaiah 44:9; Jeremiah 2:5). So is every one that trusteth in them. To "trust" in an idol is an almost inconceivable folly. Yet there is abundant proof that the heathen actually did so trust (see Herod., 5:80; 8:64, 83).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Those who make themעֹשֵׂיהֶ֑ם (‘ō·śê·hem) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 6213: To do, make will be יִהְי֣וּ (yih·yū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be like them, כְּ֭מוֹהֶם (kə·mō·w·hem) Preposition | third person masculine plural Strong's 3644: Like, as, when as will all כֹּ֭ל (kōl) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every who אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-) Pronoun - relative Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that trust בֹּטֵ֣חַ (bō·ṭê·aḥ) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 982: To trust, be confident, sure in them. בָּהֶֽם׃ (bā·hem) Preposition | third person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew Links Psalm 115:8 NIVPsalm 115:8 NLT Psalm 115:8 ESV Psalm 115:8 NASB Psalm 115:8 KJV Psalm 115:8 BibleApps.com Psalm 115:8 Biblia Paralela Psalm 115:8 Chinese Bible Psalm 115:8 French Bible Psalm 115:8 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 115:8 Those who make them will be like (Psalm Ps Psa.) |