Isa 44:10-20 | NASB2020 | STEP | Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no benefit ?

Isaiah 44:10-20

10 Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to ^ano benefit? 11 Behold, all his companions will be ^bput to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are mere men. Let them all assemble themselves, let them stand up, let them tremble, let them be put to shame together.

12 The ^ccraftsman of iron shapes 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 ^fThe craftsman of wood extends a measuring line; he outlines it with a marker. He works it with carving knives and outlines it with a compass, and makes it like the form of a man, like the beauty of ^gmankind, so that it may sit in a ^hhouse. 14 He will cut cedars for himself, and he takes a holm-oak or another oak and lets it grow strong for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel tree, and the rain makes it grow. 15 Then it becomes something for a person to burn, so he takes one of them and gets warm; he also makes a fire and bakes bread. He also ⁱmakes a god and worships it; he makes it a carved image and ^jbows down before it. 16 Half of it he burns in the fire; over this half he eats meat, he roasts a roast, and is satisfied. He also warms himself and says, “Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire.” 17 Yet the rest of it he ^kmakes into a god, his carved image. He bows down before it and worships; he also ^lprays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.”

18 They do not ^mknow, nor do they understand, for He has ⁿsmeared over their eyes so that they cannot see, and their hearts so that they cannot comprehend. 19 No one ^{▼▼Lit returns to his heart}remembers, nor is there ^pknowledge 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 ^rabomination, ^{▼▼Or shall I bow...?}I bow down before a block of wood!” 20 He ^{▼▼Or is a companion of ashes
,} ^ufeeds on ashes; a ^vdeceived heart has misled him. And he cannot save ^{▼▼Lit his soul}himself, nor say, “ ^xIs there not a lie in my right hand?”