Yǐsaìyàshū 41:7

7 Mùjiang miǎnlì yín jiàng , yòng chuí dá guāng de miǎnlì dá zhēn de , lún hàn gōng shuō , hàn dé hǎo . yòu yòng déng zǐ déng wĕn , miǎndé ǒuxiàng dòng yáo .

Yǐsaìyàshū 41:7 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 41:7

So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith
The carpenter, when he had made a wooden image, encouraged and hastened the goldsmith, or the "finer", as some render it, to do his part, in covering it with plates of gold or silver: and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil;
he that beat out thin plates of gold and silver with the hammer, in order to decorate the wooden god, encouraged the smith at the forge, that smote on the anvil, there making nails for the fastening it to a pillar or wall, to hasten his work: saying, it is ready for the sodering;
for the several joints to be put together, by sodering them: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved;
either the goldsmith and finer fastened the plates of gold and silver with nails, that they might be kept fast and close to it; or the smith that smote on the anvil, and made the nails, he fastened the image with them at some proper place, that so it might not fall, or be taken away. All which, as it represents the hurry and solicitude idolaters were in to keep up their craft and religion, so it exposes them to ridicule and contempt.

Yǐsaìyàshū 41:7 In-Context

5 Hǎidǎo kànjian jiù dōu haìpà , dìjí yĕ dōu zhàn jīng , jiù jìn qián lái .
6 Tāmen gèrén bāngzhu línshè , gèrén duì dìxiōng shuō , zhuàng dǎn ba .
7 Mùjiang miǎnlì yín jiàng , yòng chuí dá guāng de miǎnlì dá zhēn de , lún hàn gōng shuō , hàn dé hǎo . yòu yòng déng zǐ déng wĕn , miǎndé ǒuxiàng dòng yáo .
8 Wéi nǐ Yǐsèliè wǒde púrén , Yǎgè wǒ suǒ jiǎnxuǎn de , wǒ péng zǐ Yàbólāhǎn de hòuyì ,
9 Nǐ shì wǒ cóng dìjí suǒ lǐng ( yuánwén zuò zhuā ) lái de , cóng dì jiǎo suǒ zhào lái de , qiĕ duì nǐ shuō , nǐ shì wǒde púrén , wǒ jiǎnxuǎn nǐ bìng bù qìjué nǐ .
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