Isaías 44:9

9 Todos os artífices de imagens esculpidas são nada; e as suas coisas mais desejáveis são de nenhum préstimo; e suas próprias testemunhas nada vêem nem entendem, para que eles sejam confundidos.

Isaías 44:9 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 44:9

They that make a graven image are all of them vanity
They show themselves to be vain men, by making such vain things as graven images are; both images, makers, and worshippers of them are all vain, yea vanity itself: and their delectable things shall not profit;
their idols made of gold and silver, or covered with them, and adorned with precious stones, and so delightful and desirable, are of no manner of profit and advantage, unless the matter they are made of, and the ornaments about them, were converted to other uses; yet not as gods, and worshipped as such, who can be of no service to their worshippers to help them in distress, or save them from ruin: and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know that they may
be ashamed;
they that made them must be witnesses against themselves, and the idols they have made; they must be convicted in their own consciences that they cannot be gods; they must be sensible that they have no sight nor knowledge of persons and things; that they cannot see, nor know their worshippers, nor their wants, and cannot give them relief; and this they ought to acknowledge to their own shame that made them, and that their worshippers of them might be ashamed also.

Isaías 44:9 In-Context

7 Quem há como eu? Que o proclame e o exponha perante mim! Quem tem anunciado desde os tempos antigos as coisas vindouras? Que nos anuncie as que ainda hão de vir.

8 Não vos assombreis, nem temais; porventura não vo-lo declarei há muito tempo, e não vo-lo anunciei? Vós sois as minhas testemunhas! Acaso há outro Deus além de mim? Não, não há Rocha; não conheço nenhuma.

9 Todos os artífices de imagens esculpidas são nada; e as suas coisas mais desejáveis são de nenhum préstimo; e suas próprias testemunhas nada vêem nem entendem, para que eles sejam confundidos.

10 Quem forma um deus, e funde uma imagem de escultura, que é de nenhum préstimo?

11 Eis que todos os seus seguidores ficarão confundidos; e os artífices são apenas homens; ajuntem-se todos, e se apresentem; assombrar-se-ão, e serão juntamente confundidos.