Isaiah 44:13
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The carpenter hath stretched out his rule, he hath formed it with a plane: he hath made it with corners, and hath fashioned it round with the compass: and he hath made the image of a man as it were a beautiful man dwelling in a house.

he marketh

Exodus 20:4,5 Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth. . . .

Deuteronomy 4:16-18,28 Lest perhaps being deceived you might make you a graven similitude, or image of male or female, . . .

Acts 17:29 Being therefore the offspring of God, we must not suppose the divinity to be like unto gold or silver or stone, the graving of art and device of man.

Romans 1:23 And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man and of birds, and of fourfooted beasts and of creeping things.

that it may

Genesis 31:19,30,32 At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols. . . .

Genesis 35:2 And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed, and change your garments.

Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed be the man that maketh a graven and molten thing, the abomination of the Lord, the work of the hands of artificers, and shall put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say: Amen.

Judges 17:4,5 And he restored them to his mother: and she took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith, to make of them a graven and a molten God, which was in the house of Michas. . . .

Judges 18:24 And he answered: You have taken away my gods which I have made me, and the priest, and all that I have, and do you say: What aileth thee?

Ezekiel 8:12 And he said to me: Surely thou seest, O son of man, what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every one in private in his chamber: for they say: The Lord seeth us not, the Lord hath forsaken the earth.

Context
The LORD has Chosen Israel
12The smith hath wrought with his file, with coals, and with hammers he hath formed it, and hath wrought with the strength of his arm: he shall hunger and faint, he shall drink no water, and shall be weary. 13The carpenter hath stretched out his rule, he hath formed it with a plane: he hath made it with corners, and hath fashioned it round with the compass: and he hath made the image of a man as it were a beautiful man dwelling in a house.14He hath cut down cedars, taken the holm, and the oak that stood among the trees of the forest: he hath planted the pine tree, which the rain hath nourished.…
Cross References
Judges 17:4
And he restored them to his mother: and she took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith, to make of them a graven and a molten God, which was in the house of Michas.

Judges 17:5
And he separated also therein a little temple for the god, and made an ephod, and theraphim, that is to say, a priestly garment, and idols: and he filled the hand of one of his sons, and he became his priest.

Psalm 115:5
They have mouths and speak not: they have eyes and see not.

Isaiah 41:7
The coppersmith striking with the hammer encouraged him that forged at that time, saying: It is ready for soldering: and he strengthened it with nails, that it should not be moved.

Isaiah 44:14
He hath cut down cedars, taken the holm, and the oak that stood among the trees of the forest: he hath planted the pine tree, which the rain hath nourished.

Ezekiel 8:10
And I went in and saw, and behold every form of creeping things, and of living creatures, the abominations, and all the idols of the house of Israel, were painted on the wall all round about.

Ezekiel 8:11
And seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and Jezonias the son of Saaphan stood in the midst of them, that stood before the pictures: and every one had a censer in his hand: and a cloud of smoke went up from the incense.

Lexicon
The woodworker
חָרַ֣שׁ (ḥā·raš)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 2790: To cut in, engrave, plow, devise

extends
נָ֣טָה (nā·ṭāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5186: To stretch out, spread out, extend, incline, bend

a measuring line;
קָו֒ (qāw)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6957: A cord, for, measuring, a rule, a rim, a musical string, accord

he marks it out
יְתָאֲרֵ֣הוּ (yə·ṯā·’ă·rê·hū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8388: Taanath-shiloh -- probably to incline

with a stylus;
בַשֶּׂ֔רֶד (ḇaś·śe·reḏ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8279: A, scribing-awl

he shapes
יַעֲשֵׂ֙הוּ֙ (ya·‘ă·śê·hū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make

it with chisels
בַּמַּקְצֻע֔וֹת (bam·maq·ṣu·‘ō·wṯ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4741: A scraper, a carving chisel

and outlines
יְתָאֳרֵ֑הוּ (yə·ṯā·’o·rê·hū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8388: Taanath-shiloh -- probably to incline

it with a compass.
וּבַמְּחוּגָ֖ה (ū·ḇam·mə·ḥū·ḡāh)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4230: An instrument for, marking a, circle, compasses

He fashions it
וַֽיַּעֲשֵׂ֙הוּ֙ (way·ya·‘ă·śê·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make

in the likeness
כְּתַבְנִ֣ית (kə·ṯaḇ·nîṯ)
Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8403: Structure, a model, resemblance

of man,
אִ֔ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

like man
אָדָ֖ם (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 120: Ruddy, a human being

in all his glory,
כְּתִפְאֶ֥רֶת (kə·ṯip̄·’e·reṯ)
Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8597: Beauty, glory

that it may dwell
לָשֶׁ֥בֶת (lā·še·ḇeṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

in a shrine.
בָּֽיִת׃ (bā·yiṯ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1004: A house


Additional Translations
The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.The carpenter stretches out his rule; he marks it out with a line; he fits it with planes, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

The carpenter stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with a pencil; he shapeth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compasses, and shapeth it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.

The artificer having chosen a piece of wood, marks it out with a rule, and fits it with glue, and makes it as the form of a man, and as the beauty of a man, to set it up in the house.

The worker in wood stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with red chalk; he formeth it with sharp tools, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of man: that it may remain in the house.

The carpenter stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with a pencil; he shapeth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compasses, and shapeth it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in the house.

The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to reside in a house.

He hath wrought with wood, He hath stretched out a rule, He doth mark it out with a line, He maketh it with carving tools, And with a compass he marketh it out, And maketh it according to the form of a man, According to the beauty of a man, To remain in the house.
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