Isaiah 44:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? ”

Isaiah 44:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who hath formed a god - The Septuagint reads this verse in connection with the close of the previous verse, ‘But they shall be ashamed who make a god, and all who sculpture unprofitable things.’...
Isaiah 44:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Who hath formed a (o) god, or cast a graven image [that] is (p) profitable for nothing? (o) Meaning that whatever is made by the hand of man, if it is valued as a god, is most detestable. (p) By wh...
Isaiah 44:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 44:6-8 ; Isaiah 44:21-23 . The Incomparableness of Yahweh, Who Redeems Israel. Yahweh of (the heavenly) Hosts ( Genesis 2:1 *, 1 Samuel 1:3 *) asserts His uniqueness, challenging any wh...
Isaiah 44:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

10. Who is the maker of God? He pours ridicule on the madness of men who dare to frame gods; for it is a shocking and detestable thing that men should take so much upon them as to create God...
Isaiah 44:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Isaiah 44:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? Who hath formed a god? - sarcastic question: 'How debased the man must be who forms a god!' It is a contradicti...
Isaiah 44:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Impotence of Idols 1-23. The reproach of God's people shall be entirely removed. Jehovah the Eternal, who rules the events of history, contrasted with the futile gods of the heathen. 24-28....
Isaiah 44:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 44:1-28 ; Isaiah 45:1-25 ; Isaiah 46:1-13 ; Isaiah 47:1-15 ; Isaiah 48:1-22 CHAPTER IX FOUR POINTS OF A TRUE RELIGION Isaiah 43:1-28 - Isaiah 48:1-22 WE have now surveyed the...
Isaiah 44:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Besides Me There Is No God” Isaiah 44:1-11 What gracious promises are given throughout Scripture, not only to God's children, but to their seed! Here the thirsty soul, longing for love, sympat...
Isaiah 44:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The beginning of this chapter (verses Isa 44:1-5) contains the gracious promise of the outpouring of the Spirit of God, and a description of the blessing of refreshment and renewal which will come to...
Isaiah 44:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What a fine contrast does this view of the dung-hill god of a man's own creating, form with what went before, in which the glory of Jehovah is so sublimely set forth! If there were not facts existing...
Isaiah 44:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Who hath formed a god ,.... Who ever made one? was such a thing ever known? or can that be a god which is made or formed? who so mad, foolish and sottish, as to imagine he has made a god? or is it p...
Isaiah 44:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image [that] is profitable for nothing? Ver. 10. Who hath formed a god that is profitable for nothing? ] q.d, Who but a madman? ειδωλομανης, such as was...
Isaiah 44:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They that make a graven image are vanity Hereby discover themselves to be vain, empty, and foolish men. And their delectable things shall not profit Their idols, in which they take so much pleasu...
Isaiah 44:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Folly of Idolatry. B. C. 708. 9 They that make a graven image are all of them va...
Isaiah 44:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

What man in his wits can esteem that a god which his own hands have formed, or melt a graven image (understand out of the former clause, to be his god ) which is profitable for nothing? He speaks of...
Isaiah 44:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah Reveals The Folly of Idolatry ( Isaiah 44:10-20 ). Note the contrast of this passage with what precedes it. Isaiah brings out that while it is Yahweh Who formed Israel, the idol is merely f...
Isaiah 44:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

IDOL-MAKERS Isaiah 44:9-20 . They that make a graven image, &c. What have we in this section of this chapter? An effective exposure of the folly of a practice that was almost universal! A fa...
Isaiah 44:10 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 44:1-2 . Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen: Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my Serv...
Isaiah 44:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 44:5 . Another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord. This phrase is somewhat obscure; it is not said whether they signed a covenant, or imprinted some mark on their hand. The latter...
Isaiah 44:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

They that make a graven image The vanity of graven images Substituting homely prose for glowing poetry we may, after a fashion, reduce the prophet’s thought to propositions like the following--...
Isaiah 44:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 44:1-23 A PROPHECY OF ISRAEL 'S SPIRITUAL RECOVERY AND REGENERATION . This section is closely connected with Isaiah 43:1-23 ; of which it ought to form the co...
Isaiah 44:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Vanity of Idolatry over against Jehovah
Isaiah 44:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 8:4 ; 1 Kings 12:28 ; Acts 19:26 ; Daniel 3:1 ; Daniel 3:14 ; Habakkuk 2:18 ; Jeremiah 10:5

Isaiah 44:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 44:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 44:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 44:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 44:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 44:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 44:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 44:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 44:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 44:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 44:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 44:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 44:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 44:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 44:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 44:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 44:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 44:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 44:10 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 44:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 44:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 44:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 44:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 44:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge