Isa 44:10-20 | NASB1995 | STEP | Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no profit ?

Isaiah 44:10-20

10 Who has fashioned a god or cast ^{▼▼ Or a graven image}an idol to ^bno profit? 11 Behold, all his companions will be ^cput to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are mere men. Let them all assemble themselves, let them stand up, let them tremble, let them together be put to shame.

12 The ^dman shapes iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, ^{▼▼ Lit and fashions}fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm. He also gets hungry and ^{▼▼ Lit there is no strength}his strength fails; he drinks no water and becomes weary. 13 ^g Another shapes wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with red chalk. He works it with planes and outlines it with a compass, and makes it like the form of a man, like the beauty of ^hman, so that it may sit in a ⁱhouse. 14 Surely he cuts cedars for himself, and takes a ^{▼▼ Or holm-oak}cypress or an oak and ^{▼▼ Lit makes strong}raises it for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow. 15 Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also ^lmakes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and ^mfalls down before it. 16 Half of it he burns in the fire; over this half he eats meat as he roasts a roast and is satisfied. He also warms himself and says, “Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire.” 17 But the rest of it he ⁿmakes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also ^oprays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god.”

18 They do not ^pknow, nor do they understand, for He has ^qsmeared over their eyes so that they cannot see and their hearts so that they cannot comprehend. 19 No one ^{▼▼ Lit returns to his heart}recalls, nor is there ^sknowledge or understanding to say, “I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then ^{▼▼ Or shall I make?}I make the rest of it into an ^uabomination, ^{▼▼ Or shall I fall...?}I fall down before a block of wood!” 20 He ^{▼▼ Or is a companion of ashes
,} ^xfeeds on ashes; a ^ydeceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver ^{▼▼ Lit his soul}himself, nor say, ^aa“Is there not a lie in my right hand?”