Isaiah 44:12-14
1599 Geneva Bible
12 The smith taketh an instrument, and worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms, yea, he is [a]an hungered, and his strength faileth, he drinketh no water, and is faint.
13 The carpenter stretcheth forth a line, he fashioneth it with a red thread, he planeth it, and he portrayeth it with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, and according to the beauty of a man, that it may remain in [b]an house.
14 He will hew him down cedars, and take the pine tree and the oak, and taketh courage among the trees of the forest; he planteth a fir tree, and the rain doth nourish it.
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- Isaiah 44:12 He describeth the raging affection of the idolaters, which forget their own necessities to set forth their devotion toward their idols.
- Isaiah 44:13 To place it in some Temple.
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