Isaiah 40:19
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.In other versions
The image, a workman hath cast `it', and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth `for it' silver chains.
ASV
The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.
BBE
The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains [for it].
DBY
The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.
WEB
The graven image poured out hath a artizan, And a refiner with gold spreadeth it over, And chains of silver he is refining.
YLT
The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.
ENG
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
WBT
To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?
BSB
In context
17All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
18To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
19The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
20He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
21Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?