Isaiah 44:12
Berean Standard Bible
The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.
Context
10Who fashions a god or casts an idol
which profits him nothing? 11Behold, all his companions will be put to shame,
for the craftsmen themselves are only human.
Let them all assemble and take their stand;
they will all be brought to terror and shame. 12The blacksmith takes a tool
and labors over the coals;
he fashions an idol with hammers
and forges it with his strong arms.
Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength;
he fails to drink water and grows faint. 13The woodworker extends a measuring line;
he marks it out with a stylus;
he shapes it with chisels
and outlines it with a compass.
He fashions it in the likeness of man,
like man in all his glory,
that it may dwell in a shrine. 14He cuts down cedars
or retrieves a cypress * or oak.
He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest.
He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
English text: Berean Standard Bible (BSB). English audio: Berean Standard Audio Bible.