Font Size
Isaiah 44:12-14
English Standard Version
Isaiah 44:12-14
English Standard Version
12 (A)The ironsmith takes a cutting tool and works it over the coals. He fashions it with hammers and works it with his strong arm. He becomes hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water and is faint. 13 The carpenter stretches a line; he marks it out with a pencil.[a] He shapes it with planes and marks it with a compass. (B)He shapes it into the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house. 14 (C)He cuts down cedars, or he chooses a cypress tree or an oak and lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a cedar and the rain nourishes it.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Isaiah 44:13 Hebrew stylus
English Standard Version (ESV)
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
Bible Gateway Recommends
ESV Large Print Thinline Bible--imitation leather, azurite blue
Retail: $39.99
Our Price: $27.99
Save: $12.00 (30%)
ESV Jeremiah Study Bible--soft leather-look, majestic black (indexed)
Retail: $89.99
Our Price: $56.99
Save: $33.00 (37%)
The ESV New Inductive Study Bible, Milano Softone, Green
Retail: $74.99
Our Price: $48.99
Save: $26.00 (35%)
ESV Spiral-Bound Journaling Bible, Hardcover, Five-Volume Set
Retail: $149.99
Our Price: $98.99
Save: $51.00 (34%)
ESV Student Study Bible--soft leather-look, lavender with emblem design
Retail: $44.99
Our Price: $28.99
Save: $16.00 (36%)
ESV Student Study Bible, Trutone, Green with Mosaic Cross Design
Retail: $44.99
Our Price: $20.99
Save: $24.00 (53%)