Isaiah 44:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

make. fashion, or, form.

vanity. emptiness. Hebrew. tohu (without form), as in Genesis 1:2. See note on Isaiah 24:10.

their. the fashioners'.

delectable things. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), for the things they have desired.

they: i.e. the makers and worshippers. See the Structure, above.

ashamed: as the Babylonians were when their city was taken by the Medo-Persians.

Isaiah 44:9

9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.