Isaiah 42:17
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They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god.

be greatly

Isaiah 1:29 For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen.

Isaiah 44:11 Behold, all the partakers thereof shall be confounded: for the makers are men: they shall all assemble together, they shall stand and fear, and shall be confounded together.

Isaiah 45:16,17 They are all confounded and ashamed: the forgers of errors are gone together into confusion. . . .

Psalm 97:7 Let them be all confounded that adore graven things, and that glory in their idols. Adore him, all you his angels:

Jeremiah 2:26,27 As the thief is confounded when he is taken, so is the house of Israel confounded, they and their kings, their princes and their priests, and their prophets. . . .

Habakkuk 2:18-20 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. . . .

say to

Isaiah 44:17 But the residue thereof he made a god, and a graven thing for himself: he boweth down before it, and adoreth it, and prayeth unto it, saying: Deliver me, for thou art my God.

Exodus 32:4,8 And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders' work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt. . . .

Context
A New Song of Praise
16And I will lead the blind into the way which they know not: and in the paths which they were ignorant of I will make them walk: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight: these things have I done to them, and have not forsaken them. 17They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god.
Cross References
Psalm 97:7
Let them be all confounded that adore graven things, and that glory in their idols. Adore him, all you his angels:

Isaiah 1:29
For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen.

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 44:11
Behold, all the partakers thereof shall be confounded: for the makers are men: they shall all assemble together, they shall stand and fear, and shall be confounded together.

Isaiah 45:16
They are all confounded and ashamed: the forgers of errors are gone together into confusion.

Isaiah 65:13
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink, and you shall be thirsty.

Jeremiah 46:5
What then? I have seen them dismayed, and turning their backs, their valiant ones slain: they fled apace, and they looked not back: terror was round about, saith the Lord.

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.

Lexicon
But those who trust
הַבֹּטְחִ֖ים (hab·bō·ṭə·ḥîm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 982: To trust, be confident, sure

in idols
בַּפָּ֑סֶל (bap·pā·sel)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6459: An idol, image

and say
הָאֹמְרִ֥ים (hā·’ō·mə·rîm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

to molten images:
לְמַסֵּכָ֖ה (lə·mas·sê·ḵāh)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4541: A pouring over, fusion of metal, a libation, league, a coverlet

‘You
אַתֶּ֥ם (’at·tem)
Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

are our gods!’
אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ (’ĕ·lō·hê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

will be turned
נָסֹ֤גוּ (nā·sō·ḡū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 5472: To move away, backslide

back
אָחוֹר֙ (’ā·ḥō·wr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 268: The hinder part, behind, backward, the West

in utter
בֹ֔שֶׁת (ḇō·šeṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1322: Shame, shameful thing

shame.
יֵבֹ֣שׁוּ (yê·ḇō·šū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 954: To pale, to be ashamed, to be disappointed, delayed


Additional Translations
But those who trust in idols and say to molten images: ‘You are our gods!’ will be turned back in utter shame.They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, You are our gods.

They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly put to shame, that trust in graven images, that say unto molten images, Ye are our gods.

But they are turned back: be ye utterly ashamed that trust in graven images, who say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

They shall be turned back, they shall be covered with shame, that confide in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say unto molten images, Ye are our gods.

They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

"Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, 'You are our gods' will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.

Removed backward -- utterly ashamed, Are those trusting in a graven image, Those saying to a molten image, 'Ye are our gods.'
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