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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET
ISAIAH
CHAPTER 40
  19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the agoldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

Footnotes
19a
Isa. 44: 12.
  12 The asmith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
Jer. 10: 3 (3-5).
  3 For the acustoms of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.