29 Behold, all of them are [a]false;
Their (A)works are (B)nothing,
Their cast metal images are (C)wind and emptiness.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 41:29 Another reading is nothing

29 See, they are all false!
    Their deeds amount to nothing;(A)
    their images(B) are but wind(C) and confusion.

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They are like a scarecrow in a cucumber field,
And they (A)cannot speak;
They must be (B)carried,
Because they cannot walk!
Do not fear them,
For they (C)can do no harm,
Nor can they do any good.”

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Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field,
    their idols cannot speak;(A)
they must be carried
    because they cannot walk.(B)
Do not fear them;
    they can do no harm(C)
    nor can they do any good.”(D)

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18 “What (A)benefit is a carved image when its maker has carved it,
Or a cast metal image, a (B)teacher of falsehood?
For its maker (C)trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.

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18 “Of what value(A) is an idol(B) carved by a craftsman?
    Or an image(C) that teaches lies?
For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation;
    he makes idols that cannot speak.(D)

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26 You see and hear that not only in (A)Ephesus, but in almost all of [a](B)Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable number of people, saying that [b](C)gods made by hands are not gods at all.

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  1. Acts 19:26 See note v 22
  2. Acts 19:26 Lit those

26 And you see and hear how this fellow Paul has convinced and led astray large numbers of people here in Ephesus(A) and in practically the whole province of Asia.(B) He says that gods made by human hands are no gods at all.(C)

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