Isaiah 44:12-17
12 The (A)man shapes iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, (a)fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm. He also gets hungry and (b)his strength fails; he drinks no water and becomes weary.
13 (B)Another shapes wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with red chalk. He works it with planes and outlines it with a compass, and makes it like the form of a man, like the beauty of (C)man, so that it may sit in a (D)house.
14 Surely he cuts cedars for himself, and takes a (c)cypress or an oak and (d)raises it for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow.
15 Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also (E)makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and (F)falls down before it.
16 Half of it he burns in the fire; over this half he eats meat as he roasts a roast and is satisfied. He also warms himself and says, “Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire.”
17 But the rest of it he (G)makes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also (H)prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god.”
Footnotes:
a.
Isaiah 44:12: ['Lit ', and fashions]
b.
Isaiah 44:12: ['Lit ', there is no strength]
c.
Isaiah 44:14: ['Or ', holm-oak]
d.
Isaiah 44:14: ['Lit ', makes strong]