Isaiah 41:29
Good News Translation
All these gods are useless; they can do nothing at all--these idols are weak and powerless."

New Revised Standard Version
No, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their images are empty wind.

Contemporary English Version
They are nothing, and they can do nothing--they are merely a passing breeze.

New American Bible
Ah, all of them are nothing, their works are nought, their idols, empty wind!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.

they are all

Isaiah 41:24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.

Isaiah 44:9-20 The makers of idols are all of them nothing, and their best beloved things shall not profit them. They are their witnesses, that they do not see, nor understand, that they may be ashamed. . . .

Psalm 115:4-8 The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men. . . .

Psalm 135:15-18 The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of men's hands. . . .

Jeremiah 10:2-16 Thus saith the Lord: Learn not according to the ways of the Gentiles: and be not afraid of the signs of heaven, which the heathens fear: . . .

Habakkuk 2:18 What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath trusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols.

wind

Jeremiah 5:13 The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was no word of God in them: these things therefore shall befall them.

Context
Meaningless Idols
28And I saw, and there was no one even among them to consult, or who, when I asked, could answer a word. 29Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.
Cross References
Judges 18:17
But they that were gone into the house of the young man, went about to take away the graven god, and the ephod, and the theraphim, and the molten god, and the priest stood before the door, the six hundred valiant men waiting not far off.

1 Samuel 12:21
And turn not aside after vain things, which shall never profit you, nor deliver you, because they are vain.

Isaiah 2:8
And their land is filled with horses: and their chariots are innumerable. Their land also is full of idols: they have adored the work of their own hands, which their own fingers have made.

Isaiah 17:8
And he shall not look to the altars which his hands made; and he shall not have respect to the things that his fingers wrought, such as groves and temples.

Isaiah 37:19
And they have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the works of men's hands, of wood and stone: and they broke them in pieces.

Isaiah 41:24
Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.

Isaiah 44:9
The makers of idols are all of them nothing, and their best beloved things shall not profit them. They are their witnesses, that they do not see, nor understand, that they may be ashamed.

Isaiah 44:10
Who hath formed a god, and made a graven thing that is profitable for nothing?

Jeremiah 5:13
The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was no word of God in them: these things therefore shall befall them.

Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the graven things of the Gentiles that can send rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou the Lord our God, whom we have looked for? for thou hast made all these things.

Isaiah 41:28
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