Habakkuk 2:18

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.

Cross References (25)

  • Jeremiah 10:8 (9)

    But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

  • Isaiah 44:9–10 (8)

    All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend,

  • Zechariah 10:2 (8)

    For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people

  • 1 Corinthians 12:2 (8)

    You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.

  • Jeremiah 2:27–28 (7)

    say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to Me and not thei

  • Isaiah 42:17 (6)

    But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’ will be turned back in utter shame.

  • Psalms 115:4–8 (5)

    Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.

  • Psalms 135:15–18 (5)

    The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.

  • Isaiah 45:16 (5)

    They will all be put to shame and humiliated; the makers of idols will depart together in disgrace.

  • Jeremiah 10:14–15 (4)

    Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are

  • Jonah 2:8 (4)

    Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.

  • 2 Thessalonians 2:9–11 (4)

    The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false won

  • Isaiah 45:20 (4)

    Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pra

  • Isaiah 46:1–2 (3)

    Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the

  • Isaiah 46:6–8 (3)

    They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they

  • Romans 6:21 (3)

    What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.

  • 1 Timothy 4:1–2 (3)

    Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teac

  • Isaiah 1:31 (3)

    The strong man will become tinder and his work will be a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the flame

  • Isaiah 44:14–20 (3)

    He cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a lau

  • Jeremiah 50:2 (3)

    “Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is capt

  • Romans 1:23–25 (3)

    and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

  • Revelation 19:20 (3)

    But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had t

  • Revelation 13:11–15 (3)

    Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. This beast had two horns like a lamb, but spoke like a dragon.

  • Isaiah 37:38 (3)

    One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the swor

  • Jeremiah 10:3–5 (3)

    For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the ha