TSK · Isaiah 44:9

There you will worship gods made by human hands– wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

Go and cry for help to the gods you have chosen! Let them deliver you from trouble!”

All who worship idols are ashamed, those who boast about worthless idols. All the gods bow down before him.

Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.

At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live,

Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent; the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting.

Those who trust in idols will turn back and be utterly humiliated, those who say to metal images,‘You are our gods.’”

The Lord Declares His Sovereignty Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes, those who are deaf, even though they have ears!

He feeds on ashes; his deceived mind misleads him. He cannot rescue himself, nor does he say,‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’

Gather together and come! Approach together, you refugees from the nations! Those who carry wooden idols know nothing, those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.

Those who empty out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scale hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god. They then bow down and worship it.

Has a nation ever changed its gods(even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all!

They say to a wooden idol,‘You are my father.’ They say to a stone image,‘You gave birth to me.’ Yes, they have turned away from me instead of turning to me. Yet when they are in trouble, they say,‘Come and save us!’

All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.

Then I said,“LORD, you give me strength and protect me. You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble. Nations from all over the earth will come to you and say,‘Our ancestors had nothing but false gods– worthless idols that could not help them at all.

What he will honor is a god of fortresses– a god his fathers did not acknowledge he will honor with gold, silver, valuable stones, and treasured commodities.

What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things?

With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that“an idol in this world is nothing,” and that“there is no God but one.”

They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.