Parallel Verses
Amplified
Those who make idols are like them [absolutely worthless—spiritually blind, deaf, and powerless];
So is everyone who trusts in and relies on them.
New American Standard Bible
Yes, everyone who trusts in them.
King James Version
They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.
Holman Bible
as are all who trust in them.
International Standard Version
Those who craft them and all who trust in them will become like them.
A Conservative Version
Those who make them shall be like them, yea, everyone who trusts in them.
American Standard Version
They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them.
Bible in Basic English
Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.
Darby Translation
They that make them are like unto them, every one that confideth in them.
Julia Smith Translation
They making them shall be as they: every one who trusted in them.
King James 2000
They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusts in them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Those who] make them become like them, [as does] everyone who trusts in them.
Modern King James verseion
Those who make them are like them, everyone who trusts in them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They that make them are like unto them; and so are all they that put their trust in them.
NET Bible
Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.
New Heart English Bible
Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.
Webster
They that make them are like them: so is every one that trusteth in them.
World English Bible
Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.
Youngs Literal Translation
Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.
Interlinear
References
Easton
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 135:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise To God For His Power And Redemption
17
They have ears, but they do not hear,
Nor is there any breath in their mouths.
Those who make idols are like them [absolutely worthless—spiritually blind, deaf, and powerless];
So is everyone who trusts in and relies on them.
O house of Israel, bless and praise the Lord [with gratitude];
O house of Aaron, bless the Lord;
Cross References
Psalm 97:7
Let all those be [deeply] ashamed who serve carved images,
Who boast in idols.
Worship Him, all you gods!
Psalm 115:8
Those who make them will become like them,
Everyone who trusts in them.
Isaiah 44:18-20
They do not know, nor do they understand, for God has muddied their eyes so that they cannot see, and their hearts (minds) as well so that they cannot understand.
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are altogether irrational and stupid and foolish
In their discipline of delusion—their idol is [only] wood [it is ridiculous, empty and worthless]!
2 Corinthians 4:4
among them the god of this world [Satan] has blinded the minds of the unbelieving to prevent them from seeing the illuminating light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.