Isaiah 44:9

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7 And ^awho can proclaim as I do?
Then let him declare it and set it in order for Me,
Since I appointed the ancient people.
And the things that are coming and shall come,
Let them show these to them.

8 Do not fear, nor be afraid;
^aHave I not told you from that time, and declared it?
^bYou are My witnesses.
Is there a God besides Me?
Indeed ^cthere is no other Rock;
I know not one.’ ”

Idolatry Is Foolishness

9 ^aThose who make an image, all of them are useless,
And their precious things shall not profit;
They are their own witnesses;
^bThey neither see nor know, that they may be ashamed.

10 Who would form a god or mold an image
^aThat profits him nothing?

11 Surely all his companions would be ^aashamed;
And the workmen, they are mere men.
Let them all be gathered together,
Let them stand up;
Yet they shall fear,
They shall be ashamed together.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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That they may be ashamed. Who hath formed a god "That every one may be ashamed, that he hath formed a god" - The Bodleian MS., one of the first extant for its antiquity and authority, instead of mi , at the beginning of the tenth verse, has ki , which greatly clears up the construction of a very obscure passage. Doederlein approves of this reading. The Septuagint likewise closely connect in construction the end of Isaiah 44:9 with the beginning of Isaiah 44:10; and wholly omit the interrogative mi , which embarrasses the sentence: ̔ , · "But they shall be confounded that make a god; and they who engrave unprofitable things;" agreeably to the reading of the MS. above mentioned.

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