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they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/isaiah/2.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Their land is full of idols; the people worship things they have made with their own hands.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/isaiah/2.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/2.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/2.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/2.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Their land is also full of idols; They worship the work of their own hands, That which their own fingers have made.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/2.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Their land has also been filled with idols; They worship the work of their hands, That which their fingers have made.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/2.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Their land has also been filled with idols; They worship the work of their hands, That which their fingers have made.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/2.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Their land has also been filled with idols; They worship the work of their hands, That which their fingers have made.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/2.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Their land has also been filled with idols; They worship the work of their hands, That which their fingers have made.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/2.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Their land has also been filled with idols; They worship the work of their hands, That which their own fingers have made.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/2.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the work of their hands, what their fingers have made.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/2.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/2.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Everywhere in the country they worship the idols they have made. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/2.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/2.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Their land is filled with idols, and they worship what their hands have shaped and what their fingers have molded.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/2.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Their land is full of idols, and they worship objects that they have made with their own hands. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/2.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/2.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/2.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/2.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/2.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/2.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/2.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And its land is full of idols, "" It bows itself to the work of its hands, "" To that which its fingers have made,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/2.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And its land is full of idols, To the work of its hands it boweth itself, To that which its fingers have made,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/2.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And their land will be full of nothings; they will worship to the work of their hand, to what their fingers made:<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/2.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And their land has been filled with horses. And their four-horse chariots are innumerable. And their land has been filled with idols. They have adored the work of their hands, which their own fingers have made.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/2.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the works of their hands, what their fingers have made. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/2.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Their land also is filled with idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/2.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And their land was filled with idols. They were bowing down to the work of their hands, to that which their fingers made<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/2.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Their land also is full of idols; Every one worshippeth the work of his own hands, That which his own fingers have made.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/2.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And the land is filled with abominations, <i>even</i> the works of their hands; and they have worshipped <i>the works</i> which their fingers made.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/2-8.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=433" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/2.htm">The Day of Reckoning</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">7</span>Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots. <span class="reftext">8</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: ’ar·ṣōw (N-fsc:: 3ms) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">Their land</a> <a href="/hebrew/4390.htm" title="4390: wat·tim·mā·lê (Conj-w:: V-Nifal-ConsecImperf-3fs) -- To be full, to fill. Or malae; a primitive root, to fill or be full of, in a wide application.">is full of</a> <a href="/hebrew/457.htm" title="457: ’ĕ·lî·lîm (N-mp) -- Insufficiency, worthlessness. Apparently from 'al; good for nothing, by anal. Vain or vanity; specifically an idol.">idols;</a> <a href="/hebrew/7812.htm" title="7812: yiš·ta·ḥă·wū (V-Hitpael-Imperf-3mp) -- To bow down. A primitive root; to depress, i.e. Prostrate.">they bow down</a> <a href="/hebrew/4639.htm" title="4639: lə·ma·‘ă·śêh (Prep-l:: N-msc) -- A deed, work. From asah; an action; generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product or property.">to the work</a> <a href="/hebrew/3027.htm" title="3027: yā·ḏāw (N-fdc:: 3ms) -- Hand (indicating power, means, direction, etc.)">of their hands,</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: la·’ă·šer (Prep-l:: Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">to what</a> <a href="/hebrew/676.htm" title="676: ’eṣ·bə·‘ō·ṯāw (N-fpc:: 3ms) -- A finger. From the same as tseba'; something to sieze with, i.e. A finger; by analogy, a toe.">their fingers</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ‘ā·śū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">have made.</a> </span><span class="reftext">9</span>So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled—do not forgive them!…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/20-3.htm">Exodus 20:3-5</a></span><br />You shall have no other gods before Me. / You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath. / You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-28.htm">Deuteronomy 4:28</a></span><br />And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/115-4.htm">Psalm 115:4-8</a></span><br />Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men. / They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see; / they have ears, but cannot hear; they have noses, but cannot smell; ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/135-15.htm">Psalm 135:15-18</a></span><br />The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men. / They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see; / they have ears, but cannot hear; nor is there breath in their mouths. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/10-3.htm">Jeremiah 10:3-5</a></span><br />For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman. / They adorn it with silver and gold and fasten it with hammer and nails, so that it will not totter. / Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and neither can they do any good.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/10-14.htm">Jeremiah 10:14-15</a></span><br />Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them. / They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/8-4.htm">Hosea 8:4-6</a></span><br />They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction. / He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? / For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/13-2.htm">Hosea 13:2</a></span><br />Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/5-13.htm">Micah 5:13</a></span><br />I will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your own hands.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/habakkuk/2-18.htm">Habakkuk 2:18-19</a></span><br />What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak. / Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/11-4.htm">1 Kings 11:4-8</a></span><br />For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been. / Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. / So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/17-16.htm">2 Kings 17:16</a></span><br />They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/33-7.htm">2 Chronicles 33:7</a></span><br />Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/1-22.htm">Romans 1:22-23</a></span><br />Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, / and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-19.htm">1 Corinthians 10:19-20</a></span><br />Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? / No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:</p><p class="hdg">is full</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/57-5.htm">Isaiah 57:5</a></b></br> Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_chronicles/27-2.htm">2 Chronicles 27:2</a></b></br> And he did <i>that which was</i> right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_chronicles/28-2.htm">2 Chronicles 28:2-4,23-25</a></b></br> For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim… </p><p class="hdg">worship</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/37-19.htm">Isaiah 37:19</a></b></br> And have cast their gods into the fire: for they <i>were</i> no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/44-15.htm">Isaiah 44:15-20</a></b></br> Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth <i>it</i>, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth <i>it</i>; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/4-28.htm">Deuteronomy 4:28</a></b></br> And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ecclesiastes/12-3.htm">Bow</a> <a href="/proverbs/12-25.htm">Boweth</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-7.htm">Filled</a> <a href="/songs/5-5.htm">Fingers</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-7.htm">Full</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-6.htm">Hands</a> <a href="/psalms/135-15.htm">Idols</a> <a href="/psalms/135-15.htm">Images</a> <a href="/songs/5-16.htm">Itself</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-6.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-31.htm">Work</a> <a href="/psalms/138-2.htm">Worship</a> <a href="/nehemiah/9-6.htm">Worshippeth</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/5-28.htm">Bow</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-9.htm">Boweth</a> <a href="/isaiah/6-1.htm">Filled</a> <a href="/isaiah/17-8.htm">Fingers</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-5.htm">Full</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-11.htm">Hands</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-18.htm">Idols</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-18.htm">Images</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-15.htm">Itself</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-20.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-11.htm">Work</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-20.htm">Worship</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-15.htm">Worshippeth</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 2</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/2-1.htm">Isaiah prophesies the coming of Christ's kingdom</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/2-6.htm">Wickedness is the cause of God's forsaking</a></span><br><span class="reftext">10. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/2-10.htm">He exhorts to fear, because of the powerful effects of God's majesty</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading"><a href="/study/isaiah/2.htm">Berean Study Bible</a></div><b>Their land is full of idols</b><br />The Hebrew word for "idols" here is "אֱלִילִים" (elilim), which often denotes worthless or vain objects of worship. In the historical context of ancient Israel, the proliferation of idols was a direct violation of the first two commandments given to Moses. The land being "full" suggests a saturation of idolatry, indicating that the people had turned away from God to embrace the pagan practices of surrounding nations. This phrase serves as a stark reminder of the spiritual decline and the pervasive nature of sin when a society turns from God.<p><b>they bow down</b><br />The act of bowing down, or "שָׁחָה" (shachah) in Hebrew, signifies worship and submission. In the ancient Near Eastern context, bowing was a physical expression of reverence and allegiance. Here, it highlights the misplaced devotion of the Israelites, who were offering the worship due to God to lifeless idols. This act of bowing down to idols is a powerful image of spiritual adultery, as the people were giving their hearts to false gods instead of the one true God.<p><b>to the work of their hands</b><br />This phrase underscores the futility and irony of idolatry. The Hebrew word "מַעֲשֶׂה" (ma'aseh) refers to something made or crafted. The people were worshiping objects they themselves had created, which is a profound commentary on the absurdity of idolatry. It reflects a human tendency to elevate personal achievements and creations to divine status, forgetting that all creativity and ability come from God. This serves as a caution against the pride and self-sufficiency that can lead one away from dependence on God.<p><b>to what their fingers have made</b><br />The emphasis on "fingers" (אֶצְבְּעוֹת, etzba'ot) further illustrates the personal involvement and effort in creating these idols. It suggests a meticulous and intentional crafting of objects that were then revered as gods. This phrase highlights the personal investment in idolatry, making it not just a communal sin but an individual one as well. It serves as a warning against the dangers of human pride and the tendency to worship the created rather than the Creator, echoing the Apostle Paul's words in <a href="/romans/1-25.htm">Romans 1:25</a> about exchanging the truth of God for a lie.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/2.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(8) <span class= "bld">Their land also is full of idols.</span>--The word which Isaiah chooses for "idols" (<span class= "ital">elilim</span>--<span class= "ital">i.e., </span>vain, false, gods) seems intentionally contrasted with <span class= "ital">elim </span>(gods, or mighty ones), and may fairly be rendered by <span class= "ital">no-gods. </span>The reign of Ahaz was conspicuous from the first for this <span class= "ital">cultus </span>(<a href="/context/2_chronicles/28-2.htm" title="For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.">2Chronicles 28:2-3</a>), but it had been prominent even under Jotham (<a href="/2_chronicles/27-2.htm" title="And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: however, he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.">2Chronicles 27:2</a>).<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/2.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 8.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Full of idols</span>. The historians declare that both Uzziah and Jotham maintained the worship of Jehovah and disallowed idolatry (<a href="/2_kings/15-3.htm">2 Kings 15:3, 34</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/26-4.htm">2 Chronicles 26:4</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/27-2.htm">2 Chronicles 27:2</a>), so that we must regard the idol-worship of the time as an irregular and private practice. (It is, perhaps, alluded to in <a href="/2_chronicles/27-2.htm">2 Chronicles 27:2</a>; and the fact of its prevalence is stated in <a href="/amos/2-1.htm">Amos 2:1</a>; <a href="/micah/5-13.htm">Micah 5:13</a>.) Perhaps Bishop Lowth is right in regarding it as mainly a continuation of the old private teraphim worship ('Notes,' p. 25). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/2-8.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Their land</span><br /><span class="heb">אַרְצ֖וֹ</span> <span class="translit">(’ar·ṣōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> </span><span class="str2">Earth, land</span><br /><br /><span class="word">is full of</span><br /><span class="heb">וַתִּמָּלֵ֥א</span> <span class="translit">(wat·tim·mā·lê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4390.htm">Strong's 4390: </a> </span><span class="str2">To fill, be full of</span><br /><br /><span class="word">idols;</span><br /><span class="heb">אֱלִילִ֑ים</span> <span class="translit">(’ĕ·lî·lîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_457.htm">Strong's 457: </a> </span><span class="str2">Good for, nothing, by anal, vain, vanity, an idol</span><br /><br /><span class="word">they bow down</span><br /><span class="heb">יִֽשְׁתַּחֲו֔וּ</span> <span class="translit">(yiš·ta·ḥă·wū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7812.htm">Strong's 7812: </a> </span><span class="str2">To depress, prostrate</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to the work</span><br /><span class="heb">לְמַעֲשֵׂ֤ה</span> <span class="translit">(lə·ma·‘ă·śêh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4639.htm">Strong's 4639: </a> </span><span class="str2">An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of their hands,</span><br /><span class="heb">יָדָיו֙</span> <span class="translit">(yā·ḏāw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - fdc | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3027.htm">Strong's 3027: </a> </span><span class="str2">A hand</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to what</span><br /><span class="heb">לַאֲשֶׁ֥ר</span> <span class="translit">(la·’ă·šer)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Pronoun - relative<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> </span><span class="str2">Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that</span><br /><br /><span class="word">their fingers</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶצְבְּעֹתָֽיו׃</span> <span class="translit">(’eṣ·bə·‘ō·ṯāw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_676.htm">Strong's 676: </a> </span><span class="str2">Something to sieze with, a finger, a toe</span><br /><br /><span class="word">have made.</span><br /><span class="heb">עָשׂ֖וּ</span> <span class="translit">(‘ā·śū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To do, make</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/2-8.htm">Isaiah 2:8 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/2-8.htm">Isaiah 2:8 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/2-8.htm">Isaiah 2:8 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/2-8.htm">Isaiah 2:8 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/2-8.htm">Isaiah 2:8 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/2-8.htm">Isaiah 2:8 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/2-8.htm">Isaiah 2:8 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/2-8.htm">Isaiah 2:8 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/2-8.htm">Isaiah 2:8 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/2-8.htm">Isaiah 2:8 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/2-8.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 2:8 Their land also is full of idols (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/2-7.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 2:7"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 2:7" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/2-9.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 2:9"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 2:9" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>