King James Version
Isaiah 2:8 in the King James Version says “Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:”
Isaiah 2:8 · KJV
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. from: or, more than the please: or, abound with the
Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“also is full”
H4390to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
“the work”
H4639an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
“of their own hands”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
“they worship”
H7812to depress, i.e., prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage to royalty or god)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“that which their own fingers”
H676something to sieze with, i.e., a finger; by analogy, a toe
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