Isaiah 41:24New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— Behold, you are of no account, And your work amounts to nothing; He who chooses you is an abomination.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination [is he that] chooseth you.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of naught: an abomination [is he that] chooseth you.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you. ...
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Lo! ye, are, of nought, And, your work, is, a puff of breath,—An abomination, he that chooseth you!
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Lo, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought, An abomination—it fixeth on you.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Beholde, ye are of no value, and your making is of naught: man hath chosen an abomination by them.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Behold, ye are of nothing, and your worke of nought: an abomination [is he that] chooseth you.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Behold, you are nothing, and your works are corrupt; choosing you is an abomination.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— whence ye are, and whence is your works: they have chosen you an abomination out of the earth.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination [is he that] chooseth you. |
Behold,
x2005 (2005) Complementהֵןhen{hane}
A primitive particle; lo! also (as expressing surprise) if.
ye
x859 (0859) Complementאַתָּה'attah{at-taw'}
A primitive pronoun of the second person; thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you.
[ are] of nothing,
369 {0369} Primeאַיִן'ayin{ah'-yin}
As if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle.
x4480 (4480) Complementמִןmin{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
and your work
6467 {6467} Primeפֹּעַלpo`al{po'-al}
From H6466; an act or work (concretely).
of nought:
659 {0659} Primeאֶפַע'epha`{eh'-fah}
From an unused root probably meaning to breathe; properly a breath, that is, nothing.
x4480 (4480) Complementמִןmin{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
an abomination
8441 {8441} Primeתּוֹעֵבָהtow`ebah{to-ay-baw'}
Feminine active participle of H8581; properly something disgusting (morally), that is, (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol.
[ is he that] chooseth
977 {0977} Primeבָּחַרbachar{baw-khar'}
A primitive root; properly to try, that is, (by implication) select.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
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Isaiah 41:24
_ _ of nothing — (See on Isaiah 40:17). The Hebrew text is here corrupt; so English Version treats it.
_ _ abomination — abstract for concrete: not merely abominable, but the essence of whatever is so (Deuteronomy 18:12).
_ _ chooseth you — as an object of worship. |
Isaiah 41:24
Your work — Your operations are like your beings: there is no reality in your beings, nor efficacy in your actions. |
Isaiah 41:24
Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of naught: an abomination [is he that] (s) chooseth you.
(s) So that a man cannot make an idol, without doing that which God detests and abhors for he chooses his own devises and forsakes the Lords. |
- ye are:
Isaiah 41:29 Behold, they [are] all vanity; their works [are] nothing: their molten images [are] wind and confusion.
Isaiah 44:9-10 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. ... Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image [that] is profitable for nothing?
Psalms 115:8 They that make them are like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them.
Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.
Jeremiah 10:14 Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.
Jeremiah 51:17-18 Every man is brutish by [his] knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them. ... They [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
1 Corinthians 8:4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in the world, and that [there is] none other God but one.
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- of nothing:
- or, worse than nothing
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- of nought:
- or, worse than of a viper
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- an abomination:
Isaiah 66:24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
Deuteronomy 7:26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: [but] thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it [is] a cursed thing.
Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed [be] the man that maketh [any] graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth [it] in [a] secret [place]. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
Revelation 17:5 And upon her forehead [was] a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
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