Add parallel Print Page Options

13 The woodworker[a] stretches out a line;
    he makes an outline of it with a marker.
He makes it with a knife
    and makes an outline of it with a compass.
He makes it like the image of a man,
    like the beauty of a human, to dwell in a temple.[b]
14 Cutting down cedars for himself,
    he chooses[c] a holm tree and an oak,
and he lets it grow strong for him among the trees of the forest.
    He plants a cedar, and the rain makes it grow.
15 And it becomes fuel for a human,[d]
    and he takes some of it and grows warm;
    also, he kindles a fire and bakes bread.
Also, he makes a god and bows in worship;
    he makes himself an image and bows down to it!

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 44:13 Literally “craftsman of wood”
  2. Isaiah 44:13 Or “house”
  3. Isaiah 44:14 Literally “takes”
  4. Isaiah 44:15 Literally “will become for a man as burning”